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 Project objective

This proposal presents three broad projects on information frictions in households' credit markets and on the consequences of these frictions for durable good markets. Specifically, an influential theoretical literature in information economics has shown that borrowing constraints can arise in equilibrium when borrowers and lenders have asymmetric information about borrowers' risks. Hence, the first project aims to provide the first empirical analyses of markets (i.e., demand and supply) with asymmetric information and nonexclusive trades---i.e., markets in which households can purchase multiple insurance contracts, such as in life insurance markets, or can open multiple credit lines, such as in credit card markets. The second project aims to study recent regulations of fees and prices in markets for consumer financial products, such as mortgages, that could have the unintended consequences of increasing households' cost of credit and, thus, of tightening their borrowing constraints. Finally, the third project aims to study the role of borrowing constraints in durable goods markets, with a special focus on car markets during the Great Recession.

All these projects aim to develop and estimate structural models using data from different markets. I further plan to use the estimated structural parameters to perform counterfactual policy analyses in each of the specific markets analyzed in these projects.