Consumer Finance Behavior, Consumer Financial Education and Consumer Welfare

Posted on:

11/05/12

The research on consumer financial behavior focuses on how to define, describe, understand and predict, change, develop and compare consumers' financial behaviors. This paper briefly reviews research on these six aspects of consumer financial behavior in US and discusses the relationship between consumer financial education and consumer financial behavior and also the relationship between consumer financial behavior and consumer welfare.

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