How easy is it to understand consumer finance?

How easy is it to understand consumer finance?

Yes === We consider the readability of payday loan websites against conventional lenders. Our findings show that credit card websites are harder to read and contain more complex terminology. Our central contribution is to provide the first known measurement of readability in consumer finance — somet...

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Main Authors: Burke, M., Fry, John
Language:en
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Bibliometrics
Household finance
Readability
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17562
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spelling ndltd-BRADFORD-oai-bradscholars.brad.ac.uk-10454-175622020-07-18T05:00:47Z How easy is it to understand consumer finance? Burke, M. Fry, John Bibliometrics Household finance Readability Yes We consider the readability of payday loan websites against conventional lenders. Our findings show that credit card websites are harder to read and contain more complex terminology. Our central contribution is to provide the first known measurement of readability in consumer finance — something regulators have found helpful in other domains. 2020-01-05T11:25:24Z 2020-01-10T12:16:14Z 2020-01-05T11:25:24Z 2020-01-10T12:16:14Z 2019-04 2019-01-08 2019-01-16 2020-01-05T11:25:26Z Article Accepted manuscript Burke M and Fry J (2019) How easy is it to understand consumer finance? Economics Letters. 177: 1-4. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17562 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.01.004 © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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Household finance
Readability
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Household finance
Readability
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How easy is it to understand consumer finance?
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