Self-control, financial literacy & the co-holding puzzle

We use UK survey data to analyze the puzzling co-existence of high cost revolving consumer credit alongside low yield liquid savings in household balance sheets, which we name the ‘co-holding puzzle'. Approximately 12% of households in our sample co-hold, on average, £3800 of revolving consumer...

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Main Authors: Gathergood, John, Weber, Jörg
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29811/