Consumer Law

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

By Jeff Sovern

The following papers appear in 29 Journal of Family and Economic Issues Number 2 (June 2008), a thematic issue on consumer financial issues:

Lucia Dunn, Guest Editor's Introduction

Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, and Lawrence Mielnicki, Do Forbearance Plans Help Mitigate Credit Card Losses?

David A. Evans and Jean M. Lown, Predictors of Chapter 13 Completion Rates: The Role of Socioeconomic Variables and Consumer Debt Type

Diann C. Moorman and Steven Garasky, Consumer Debt Repayment Behavior as a Precursor to Bankruptcy

Tim R.L. Fry, Sandra Mihajilo, Roslyn Russell and Robert Brooks, The Factors Influencing Saving in a Matched Savings Program: Goals, Knowledge of Payment Instruments, and Other Behavior

Marc Anthony Fusaro, Hidden Consumer Loans: An Analysis of Implicit Interest Rates on Bounced
Checks

Anna Paulson and Sherrie L. W. Rhine, The Financial Assimilation of an Immigrant Group: Evidence on the Use of Checking and Savings Accounts and Currency Exchanges

Douglas J. Lamdin, Does Consumer Sentiment Foretell Revolving Credit Use?

Nancy Ammon Jianakoplos and Alexandra Bernasek, Family Financial Risk Taking When the Wife Earns More

Tansel Yilmazer, Saving for Children's College Education: An Empirical Analysis of the
Trade-off between the Quality and Quantity of Children*

More information on the papers can be found at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/104904/

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).