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20202026
most citedWeighing Anchor on Credit Card Debt

6 citations · 14 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

econ.GN2026

Buy Now, Pay Later: Academic Insights and Open Policy Questions

Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Walter W. Zhang

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has moved from a novelty product to mainstream consumer finance in the space of a few years. Before 2020, BNPL was a niche offering at the checkouts of on…

econ.GN2023★ 6 cited

Weighing Anchor on Credit Card Debt

Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Jesse Leary, Neil Stewart

We find it is common for consumers who are not in financial distress to make credit card payments at or close to the minimum. This pattern is difficult to reconcile with economic f…

econ.GN2022★ 6 cited

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)...On Your Credit Card

Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Christopher Firth, John Gathergood

We provide the first economic research on `buy now, pay later' (BNPL): an unregulated FinTech credit product enabling consumers to defer payments into interest-free instalments. We…

econ.GN2020★ 1 cited

Levelling Down and the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Uneven Regional Recovery in UK Consumer Spending

John Gathergood, Fabian Gunzinger, Benedict Guttman-Kenney +2

We show the recovery in consumer spending in the United Kingdom through the second half of 2020 is unevenly distributed across regions. We utilise Fable Data: a real-time source of…

econ.GN2020★ 1 cited

The English Patient: Evaluating Local Lockdowns Using Real-Time COVID-19 & Consumption Data

John Gathergood, Benedict Guttman-Kenney

We find UK 'local lockdowns' of cities and small regions, focused on limiting how many people a household can interact with and in what settings, are effective in turning the tide…