The Capitalization of Consumer Financing into Durable Goods Prices
Using loan-level data on millions of used-car transactions across hundreds of lenders, we study the consumer response to exogenous variation in credit terms. Borrowers offered shorter maturity decrease expenditures enough to offset 60% to 90% of the monthly payment increase. Most of this is driven b...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130492 |