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Do U.S. consumers really benefit from payment card rewards? [PDF]

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Payment card rewards programs have become increasingly popular in the United States. But do consumers really benefit from rewards? In the United States, rewards are paid for primarily by the fees charged to merchants, and merchants may pass on the fees ...
Fumiko Hayashi
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Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
wiley   +1 more source

Credit Card Payment Processing in Electronic Commerce: An Analysis of the Bucket Pricing Strategy [PDF]

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Credit cards have been the dominant payment method for the electronic commerce retail industry. However, online retailers, especially the small to medium ones, continue to be disadvantaged by the seemingly arbitrary bucket pricing strategy implemented by
Yoris A. Au
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Dutch dilemma: Housing prices and flood risk exposure

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article studies the impact of flood risk exposure on housing prices in a major river delta. Analyzing 1.8 million property transactions from 1998 to 2023 in the Netherlands, we find an average price discount of 1.1%. We observe considerable heterogeneity in price effects driven by exposure intensity, institutional settings that vary ...
Piet Eichholtz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing credit card fraud detection with a stacking-based hybrid machine learning approach. [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Comput Sci
Marazqah Btoush EAL   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The reaction of consumer spending and debt to tax rebates – evidence from consumer credit data [PDF]

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We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the ...
Sumit Agarwal   +2 more
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The company you keep: The influence of popular delinquents and deviant brokers on offending trajectories

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on how delinquent peer associations affect individuals’ life courses is limited. This paper addresses this gap by examining delinquent peer network characteristics and their impact on offending trajectories through social network analysis (SNA) and group‐based trajectory modeling (GBTM).
Daniel Trovato
wiley   +1 more source

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