Study: Tourists suffer from “money illusion” when doing foreign currency calculations
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Conversion apps make it a lot easier to spend intelligently abroad, but then who spends with that much care?
A fascinating new study from NYU Stern examines how tourists convert foreign currencies to make spending decisions. Specifically, when tourists pay with foreign currencies, they will overspend or underspend, depending on the exchange rate.
The study was done by Priya Raghubir, Research Professor of Marketing, and Vicki Morwitz, Harvey Golub Prof