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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Argyle, Bronson, Nadauld, Taylor, Palmer, Christopher John, Pratt, Ryan
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130492.2