How Much Are Car Purchases Driven by Home Equity Withdrawal?

Autor: Karen M. Pence, Daniel J. Vine, Brett McCully
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: J Money Credit Bank
ISSN: 1538-4616
0022-2879
DOI: 10.1111/jmcb.12595
Popis: Previous research indicates that changes in housing wealth affect consumer spending on cars. We find that home equity extraction plays only a small role in this relationship. Consumers rarely use funds from equity extraction to purchase a car directly, even during the mid-2000s housing boom; this finding holds across three nationally representative household surveys. We find in credit bureau data that equity extraction does lead to a statistically significant increase in auto loan originations, consistent with equity extraction easing borrowing constraints in the auto loan market. This channel, though, accounts for only a tiny share of overall car purchases.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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