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Effects of price competition in the credit card industry

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  • Park, Sangkyun, 1997. "Effects of price competition in the credit card industry," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 57(1), pages 79-85, November.
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    1. Calem, Paul S & Mester, Loretta J, 1995. "Consumer Behavior and the Stickiness of Credit-Card Interest Rates," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 85(5), pages 1327-1336, December.
    2. Mester, Loretta J, 1994. "Why Are Credit Card Rates Sticky?," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 4(4), pages 505-530, May.
    3. Sangkyun Park, 1993. "The credit card industry: profitability and efficiency," Research Paper 9314, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    4. Brito, Dagobert L & Hartley, Peter R, 1995. "Consumer Rationality and Credit Cards," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 103(2), pages 400-433, April.
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    2. Omar A. Abdelrahman, 2016. "Credit Card Rates and Consumer Switch: New Evidence," International Journal of Economics and Finance, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(12), pages 95-105, December.
    3. Kulasekaran, Sivakumar & Shaffer, Sherrill, 2002. "Cost efficiency among credit card banks," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 54(6), pages 595-614.
    4. Sangkyun Park, 1997. "Option value of credit lines as an explanation of high credit card rates," Research Paper 9702, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    5. Cash, Alyxandra & Tsai, Hui-Ju, 2018. "Readability of the credit card agreements and financial charges," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 145-150.
    6. Ming-Hua Liu & Dimitris Margaritis & Yang Zhang, 2023. "The impact of regulation on credit card market competition: evidence from Australia," Journal of Economics and Finance, Springer;Academy of Economics and Finance, vol. 47(3), pages 669-689, September.

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