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Hire purchase controls and replacement cycles

PSL Quarterly Review

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Title Hire purchase controls and replacement cycles
 
Creator GHANDHI, J.K.S.
 
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Hire purchase, replacement cycles, market for consumer durables
D12, L68
 
Description The control of hire purchase by specifying and altering minimum terms has been subjected to numerous objections, most of which are administrative or social in substance. Recently, however, a strictly economic critique of these controls has been developed which contends that hire purchase controls tend to lead to replacement cycles in the market for consumer durables. The present article tests this hypothesis by formalizing the basic model and testing it with empirical data. Based on the analysis and the statistical evidence the author argues that the conditions necessary for the generation of a hire purchase induced replacement cycle are unlikely to be realized, except in the most extreme circumstances. Therefore, the objection to the use of hire purchase controls on the grounds that they tend to lead to replacement cycles is unwarranted.
 
Publisher Economia civile
 
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Date 2014-03-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/11918
 
Source PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 15, No 62 (1962)
PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 15, No 62 (1962)
2037-3643
ISSN 2037-3635
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/11918/11731
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 J.K.S. GHANDHI
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