Payday loans are one of the most expensive forms of credit in the world. Borrowers typically pay non annualized finance charges of 18% for loans lasting two weeks. These terms imply an annualized cost of payday loan liquidity of +.+2#& + 5 1,3/&. Truth in Lending regulations result in posted Annual Percentage Rates (APRs) for two week long loans of 18% ,0 5 .02&. Since finance charges generally do not depend on loan length, month%long and week long payday loans respectively carry annualized liquidity costs of +.+2"# + 5 0,3& and +.+2%# + 5 /.01./&.
Despite these high interest rates, ten million distinct American households borrowed on payday loans in 2002 and the industryis growth rate exceeds 15% annually (Robinson and Wheeler 2003). Consumption models offer three main complementary explanations for such a phenomenon. First, consumers may have very high discount rates, particularly in the short term (Phelps and Pollak 1968, Laibson 1997b, Frederick, Loewenstein and OiDonoghue 2002). Second, consumers may experience shocks that cause large, unanticipated variation in the marginal utility of consumption (Deaton 1991, Carroll 1992). Third, consumers may have overoptimistically rosy forecasts of the future, in regard to either their own time preferences (Akerlof 1991, OiDonoghue and Rabin 1999a) or the probability of favorable shocks (Brunnermeier and Parker 2005, Browning and Tobacman 2007).
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In the rapidly changing global market place, where companies have the freedom to choose how and where business gets done, CFOs are under increasing pressure to help achieve profitable growth. To succeed, the Finance organisation has to be extremely agile, adapting to ever-changing corporate priorities and aggressively capturing and transforming data into unique insights while delivering earnings reliability and precision forecasting.
The Global CFO Study 2008, conducted by IBM in cooperation with The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Economist Intelligence Unit, examined CFOs’ current priorities and the obstacles they face in helping the business succeed as a global enterprise. The study found a majority of CFOs looking to help their companies take advantage of the enormous opportunities made possible by the global economy but feeling unable to do so. Their Finance organisations simply lack the flexibility and enterprise-wide integration necessary to mobilise information and resources quickly enough.
