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distance, or on particular cars. Given choices about cars and distance, we also calculate emissions. Since we model … taxes on cars or to taxes on gas or distance. Thus emissions are more affected by taxes on gasoline than by taxes on … particular vehicles. Yet taxes on cars have lower costs on consumers and thus lower marginal cost of abatement. Given that the …
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Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...
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Infrastructure projects are increasingly aiming to improve liveability, in particular in urban areas. We analyse a specific case in which an existing highway in an urban area was moved underground in order to improve intercity traffic flows and to reduce traffic externalities. As travel times...
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for all new cars sold within the European Union as of 1998. We exploit the regulation as source of exogenous variation in … use of the device by year of manufacture of cars. Based on detailed data at the level of car models, we find that uniform … during 1995-2008, accounting for both the protective effect on cars with the device and the displacement effect on cars …
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We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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testable hypothesis about the impact of observable quality on the supply of used cars. We test the hypothesis with data …
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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify...
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We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...
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China’s policy penalized any firm that assembled cars with less than 60 percent Chinese content, the policy was most likely …
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Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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