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Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation
Andreas Grunewald
Tobias Salz
Jonathan A. Lanning
David C. Low
其他書名
Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 2020
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9Ld20AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This paper studies the intermediation of auto loans through auto dealers using new and comprehensive administrative data. The arrangements between auto dealers and lenders incentivize dealers to increase loan prices. We leverage details of the corresponding contracts to demonstrate that many consumers are less responsive to finance charges than to vehicle charges. Taking this behavior into account, we estimate an equilibrium model of dealer price setting and lender competition. We explore counterfactuals where dealers have no discretion to price loans and final rates are set by lenders instead. We find large gains in consumer surplus from such a policy.