Online Appendix Modeling the Revolving Revolution: The Role of IT Reconsidered [not intended for publication]
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This Appendix contains an overview of debt collection technologies in the U.S. and its recent evolution. In the first section we summarize how debt is collected in the U.S. Section 2 focuses on collection technology and its recent evolution. The last section describes the data sources used in the analysis. 1 Overview of the Debt Collection Process in the US We briefly describe the debt collection process in the US. We focus on credit card debt, but similar methods are generally used in the case of other forms of unsecured credit.
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