Credit Shocks and Equilibrium Dynamics in Consumer Durable Goods Markets
Credit Shocks and Equilibrium Dynamics in Consumer Durable Goods Markets
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耐用消费品市场的信用冲击和均衡动态
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10.1093/restud/rdab004
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发表时间:
2021
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通讯作者:
Lanteri, Andrea
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作者:
Gavazza, Alessandro;Lanteri, Andrea
This article studies equilibrium dynamics in consumer durable goods markets after aggregate credit shocks. We introduce two novel features into a general-equilibrium model of durable consumption with heterogeneous households facing idiosyncratic income risk and borrowing constraints: (1) indivisible durable goods are vertically differentiated in their quality and (2) trade on secondary markets at market-clearing prices, with households endogenously choosing when to trade or scrap their durables. The model highlights a new transmission mechanism for macroeconomic shocks and successfully matches several empirical patterns that we document using data on U.S. car markets around the Great Recession. After a tightening of the borrowing limit, debt-constrained households postpone the decision to scrap and upgrade their low-quality cars, which depresses mid-quality car prices. In turn, this effect reduces wealthy households’ incentives to replace their mid-quality cars with high-quality ones, thereby decreasing new-car sales. We further use our framework to evaluate targeted fiscal stimulus policies such as the Car Allowance Rebate System in 2009 (“Cash for Clunkers”).
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