In an article in the JMR several years ago. Walker and Sauter attempted to show how preferences for alternative retail credit terms depended on consumers’ socioeconomic traits. They did not consider an accounting identity linking the various characteristics of credit plans, and also did not clearly relate the empirical results to the underlying economic theory.
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