Auto Credit and the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform: The Impact of Eliminating Cramdowns
Auto lenders were perhaps the biggest winners of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform, as Chapter 13 bankruptcy filers can no longer "cramdown" the amount owed on recent auto loans. We estimate the causal effect of this anticramdown provision on the price and quantity of auto credit. Exploiting hist...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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