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Estimating the effects of the container revolution on world trade

Bernhofen, Daniel M.; El-Sahli, Zouheir; Kneller, Richard - 2013

railway container facilities to construct a time-varying bilateral technology variable and estimate its effect on explaining …

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Shipping inside the box : containerization and trade

Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu - 2017

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … to shipment, destination and firm characteristics. We find container transport to have a higher first-mile cost and a …

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Competition and trust : evidence from German car manufacturers

Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - 2011

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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Who should pay for certification?

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011

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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Competition and innovation in automobile markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

Using data from the US 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 US market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...

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What drives home market advantage?

Coşar, A. Kerem; Grieco, Paul L. E.; Li, Shengyu; … - 2015

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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Trust, competition and innovation : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015

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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The influence of Chinese trade policy on automobile assembly and parts

Swenson, Deborah - 2011

This paper analyzes the economic effects of content-based import tariffs China imposed on imported auto parts. While China's policy penalized any firm that assembled cars with less than 60 percent Chinese content, the policy was most likely to affect foreign affiliated firms who were more likely...

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Sorting on the used-car market after the Volkswagen emission scandal

Strittmatter, Anthony; Lechner, Michael - 2017 - First draft: April 2017

The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock in the observable quality of VW diesel vehicles. We consider a classical model for adverse selection and sorting to derive an empirically testable hypothesis about the impact of observable quality on...

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Trust, investment and competition : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2019

Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...

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