The Impact of Economic Literacy and Attitude Toward Credit Card Usage on Rational Use of Credit Cards: The Case of Dumlupinar University Tavsanli Vocational College

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Recent financial crisis indicates that financial world is becoming more complicated and risky, thus proves the importance of economic literacy. While individual decisions of consumers do have an impact on their personal lives, they also have an impact on macro economies in aggregate level. The best example of this is the mortgage crisis of the United States in 2008. Credit card is an important payment instrument; however, it is clear that irrational use of credit cards may create harmful damage in the economy. By employing a multiple regression analysis on data set gathered from a questionnaire, this study empirically tests the economic literacy by measuring rational credit card usage among students at Tavsanli Vocational College of Dumlupinar University. The results reveal that individuals with relatively higher degree of economic literacy are expected to be more rational and conscious about financial decision making.