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Bound rationality theory is used to study the role of information disclosure in influencing credit card user’s repayment behaviour in Malaysian. Eight types of information disclosure analysed on the actual credit card users which divided into three prior define groups. Data collected by using the survey response of 413 card users in the northern region of West Malaysia. The finding of the discriminant analysis confirms that minimum payment due is the most contributing information disclosure which discriminant amongst the groups. Conditional on attributes of the data, quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) outclassed the other discriminant analysis. QDA-resubstitution enable the credit card users to correctly classified repayment behaviour at 85 percent. Addition to that, for prediction purposes, 84 per cent of credit card users were correctly classified. The findings of this study highlight the importance of information disclosure in influencing credit card repayment decision. These findings have implications for policy maker, card users and issuers.
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