Are Information Disclosure Mandates Effective? Evidence from the Credit Card Market
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Keywords
Credit cards; information disclosure; truth in lending; Mexico.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- G02 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Behavioral Finance: Underlying Principles
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2014-10-22 (Banking)
- NEP-CTA-2014-10-22 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-EXP-2014-10-22 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ICT-2014-10-22 (Information & Communication Technologies)
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