An Analysis of the Impact of Interest Rate Ceilings
估计汽车贷款利率，并识别哪些潜在借款人最可能因利率上限被挤出市场，使用截断正态模型和最大似然法得到一致估计。
ABSTRACT The first aim of this study is to estimate the interest rates paid for motor vehicle loans. The second aim is to identify those potential borrowers most likely to be rationed out of the market by the imposition of rate ceilings. Rate ceilings constrain the rates paid by successful loan applicants to be no greater than the applicable ceiling level. These constraints are dealt with by treating the interest rate paid as a variable truncated at the ceiling level. Assuming the dependent variable is truncated normal, consistent estimates are obtained by employing the maximum likelihood method of Hausman and Wise.