Plastic money : constructing markets for credit cards in eight postcommunist countries

Plastic money : constructing markets for credit cards in eight postcommunist countries / Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva.

In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a ""credit-card economy"" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a...

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Main Authors: Rona-Tas, Akos (Author), Guseva, Alya, 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Credit cards > Former communist countries.
Consumer credit > Former communist countries.
Post-communism > Economic aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
Consumer credit
Credit cards
Post-communism > Economic aspects
Postkommunismus
Kreditkarte
Markterschließung
Former communist countries
Osteuropa
Asien
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Table of Contents:
  • Paying with cards
  • The transition from a communist to a market economy
  • Payment puzzles
  • Credit puzzles
  • The construction of card markets in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic
  • Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria
  • Vietnam and China.

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