Helper, Susan - In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE 2011/2 (2011) 2, pp. 51-68
The U.S. economic crisis of 2008-2009 hit the automotive industry particularly hard; sales fell suddenly by 40% in the third quarter of 2008. The U.S. policy response to this automotive crisis was somewhat misdirected, attempting to solve the wrong problems. The U.S. automakers did not have a...