Helping consumers to evaluate annual percentage rates (APR) on credit cards.

Using Credit Cards to Streamline the Use of Resources

Helping Consumers Know Themselves

In standard models with asymmetric information, the parties involved are assumed to have private information about their own characteristics. In the health insurance market, for example, customers are typically assumed to know more about their health status than insurers do, and if the customers use this information in deciding whether to buy insurance, we have a classic case of adverse selecti...

History of Credit Cards

Unfortunately it could also be used to defraud these agencies. In the period immediately following their introduction public acceptance of credit cards was less than enthusiastic, but by 1992 there were almost 10 million major credit cards in use in Australia.2 There were also in excess of 25,000 fraudulent credit card transactions per annum. In this, then, as in so many other areas of property...

Anonymous Internet Credit Cards

In credit based payment systems, con dential data such as PIN and credit card number embedded in an electronic credit card must be protected. The authenticity of an electronic credit card in a payment process is normally achieved through an on-line trusted server such as a nancial institution that runs the payment system. This paper considers some novel secure electronic credit card based payme...

Credit cards and inflation

The introduction (and widespread use) of credit cards increases trading efficiency but, by also increasing the velocity of money, it causes massive inflation, in the absence of monetary intervention. If the monetary authority attempts to restore pre-credit card price levels by reducing the money supply, it will have to sacrifice all the efficiency gains. When there is default on credit cards, t...