Lower financial literacy induces use of informal loans

Finance literature documents associations between a family’s financial literacy and its propensity to borrow. However, most studies focus exclusively on formal loan markets. Based on 2,023 observations about financial behavior of Brazilian families, we examined the impacts of financial literacy on i...

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Main Authors: Danilo Braun Santos, Wesley Mendes-da-Silva, Lauro Gonzalez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo 2018-01-01
Series:RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas
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Online Access:http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rae/article/view/73880/70929