Benetton, Matteo; Mayordomo, Sergio; Paravisini, Daniel - 2021
We study the role of captive finance in the car loan market when manufacturers' liquidity demand increases. Using a new … multi-country dataset on securitized car loans, we show that captive lending enables a liquidity constrained integrated … exploit quasi-exogenous variation in manufacturers' liquidity cost and need following the Volkswagen emissions scandal to …