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  2. Mental accounting - Wikipedia

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    An example of mental accounting is people's willingness to pay more for goods when using credit cards than if they are paying with cash. [1] This phenomenon is referred to as payment decoupling. Mental accounting (or psychological accounting ) is a model of consumer behaviour developed by Richard Thaler that attempts to describe the process ...

  3. Trade credit - Wikipedia

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    Trade credit is the loan extended by one trader to another when the goods and services are bought on credit. Trade credit facilitates the purchase of supplies without immediate payment. Trade credit is commonly used by business organizations as a source of short-term financing. It is granted to those customers who have a reasonable amount of ...

  4. Trade Credit: Definition, Types and Examples - AOL

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    Trade credit is an arrangement that allows a business to acquire goods or services from another business without making immediate payment. Trade credit is essentially a short-term loan without ...

  5. Pain of paying - Wikipedia

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    Applying the reduced pain of paying to credit cards would be able to explain the effects seen within credit card usage. Increased credit card usage, as compared to cash usage, has been linked to increased spending, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] less accurate expenditure recall, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] reduced impulse control leading to more frequent spending ...

  6. Behavioral economics - Wikipedia

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    Behavioral models typically integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience and microeconomic theory. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Behavioral economics began as a distinct field of study in the 1970s and 1980s, but can be traced back to 18th-century economists, such as Adam Smith , who deliberated how the economic behavior of individuals could be influenced by ...

  7. Trade Credit: Definition, Types and Examples - AOL

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    Trade credit is an arrangement that allows a business to acquire goods or services from another business without making immediate payment. This ability to buy now and pay later is an important ...

  8. Economic bubble - Wikipedia

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    Advocates of perspectives stressing the role of credit money in an economy often refer to (such) bubbles as "credit bubbles", and look at such measures of financial leverage as debt-to-GDP ratios to identify bubbles. Typically the collapse of any economic bubble results in an economic contraction termed (if less severe) a recession or (if more ...

  9. US credit card debt just hit a new record of $1.17 trillion ...

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    Breaking the cycle of credit card debt. The problem with credit card debt is twofold. First, the longer you carry a balance (or multiple balances), the more interest you accrue.