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When Politics Meets Money: Geopolitical Risk and Money Demand in the US and Euro Area

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of geopolitical risk on real money demand in the United States and the Euro Area using Divisia monetary aggregates. To account for the potential instability of money demand and the complex nature of geopolitical shocks, we employ a comprehensive empirical framework combining linear and non‐linear ...
Anirban Sengupta, Fredj Jawadi, Abdoulkarim Idi Cheffou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Market structure and credit card pricing: what drives the interchange? [PDF]

This paper presents a model for the credit card industry, where oligopolistic card networks price their products in a complex marketplace with competing payment instruments, rational consumers/merchants, and competitive card issuers/acquirers.
Zhu Wang
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Enhancing Reliable Irrigation–Water Supply in Poverty‐Ridden and Drought‐Prone Areas: Pre‐2017 Baseline Evidence From the Tawona Irrigation Scheme, Zimbabwe

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates farmers' willingness to pay for a reliable irrigation water supply in Zimbabwe's Tawona irrigation scheme, where intermittent water supply caused by funding shortages threatens irrigation sustainability. Using contingent valuation and logit regression analysis, data were collected from 313 farmers during the 2016/2017 ...
Edgar Muhoyi, Josue Mbonigaba
wiley   +1 more source

Credit Card Fraud Detection

CoRR
Credit card fraud remains a significant challenge due to class imbalance and fraudsters mimicking legitimate behavior. This study evaluates five machine learning models - Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) on a real-world dataset using undersampling, SMOTE, and a hybrid approach. Our
Iva Popova, Hamza A. A. Gardi
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Explaining intention to use the Islamic credit card: an extension of the TRA model [PDF]

Purpose – The Islamic credit card is a type of banking product offered by Islamic banks. Given the importance to the Islamic credit card to Islamic banks, the study is aimed at identifying the factors determining the Malaysian bank customers’ behavioral ...
Hanudin, Amin
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AN ANALYSIS OF ATTITUDES TO ISLAMIC AND CONVENTIONAL CREDIT CARDS IN MALAYSIA: PERSPECTIVES ON SELECTION CRITERIA AND IMPACT ANALYSIS [PDF]

, 2011
The development of everyday financial instruments is an important dimension of modern life, and credit cards are considered to be the main instruments and facilitators of spending in modern economies.
HUSSIN, NAZIMAH
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Emotional Valence Influences Empathic Capacity in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Previous research has identified age‐related differences in empathic abilities between adolescence and young adulthood. While cognitive empathy appears to continue to develop from adolescence and into adulthood, the developmental trajectory of affective empathy is less clear.
Alana J. Topsfield, Sarah A. Grainger
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic responses to regulatory threat in the credit card market [PDF]

In November 1991, federal lawmakers threatened to place a binding cap on credit card interest rates. I find that credit card rates declined following the regulatory threat, more so for larger and more politically visible credit card issuers.
Victor Stango
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Small Area Consumption Estimates Combining Survey and Financial Footprints Data

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate average equivalised consumption measures across 370 local authority districts in Great Britain, using small‐area estimation methods that combine information from a household budget survey, a much larger survey of local demographics and employment, and area‐level information on bank account outflows and energy consumption.
Peter Levell, Lars Nesheim, Gautam Vyas
wiley   +1 more source

COST OF CREDIT IN CREDIT CARDS

Quipukamayoc, 2011
¿Qué es la tarjeta de crédito? Es un pequeño crédito, del que se hace uso, por medio de la emisión de una tarjeta de plástico personalizada que dispone de una banda magnética y un número de relieve. Sirve como medio de pago, para realizar compras y aplazar los pagos durante varios meses, para obtener crédito y cancelar otras deudas.
Avelino Sánchez, Esteban Marino, Cerna Maguiña, Héctor Félix, Michue Salguedo, Efrén Silverio   +2 more
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