Into the red the birth of the credit card market in postcommunist Russia - Guseva, Alya (Stanford Univ. Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-193) and index
The architecture of credit card markets -- Market building in the transitional context -- Setting the stage : consumer credit and banking before and during the transition -- Inner circles : card issuing at the dawn of the market -- The stick but no carrot : disseminating cards through employers -- The carrot, at last : will consumer lending lead the way for Russia's credit card market? -- The missing piece of the puzzle : the struggle to institutionalize interbank information sharing and create credit bureaus -- The Russian credit card market through the lens of continuity and change