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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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The greener, the higher : labor demand of automotive firms during the green transformation

Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024

We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...

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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 … quantities on the extensive margin. While China's content-based auto import trade policy was repealed in 2009 after China lost …

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Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies : evidence from the car market

Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021

This article tests the effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards on the direction of innovation, in particular on breakthrough technologies in the automotive industry. We develop an intuitive measure of standard stringency that captures the policy's most important features...

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Does marketing widen borders? : cross-country price dispersion in the European car market

Dvir, Eyal; Strasser, Georg - 2017 - This version: May 2017

We study cross-country price differences in the European market for new passenger cars based on detailed pricing and technical data. Car prices in Europe converged until the year 2003, but not thereafter. Within the EU 15 countries the price range of the median model in 2004 was close to 20...

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Equilibrium trade in automobile markets

Gillingham, Kenneth; Iskhakov, Fedor; Munk-Nielsen, Anders - 2019

We introduce a computationally tractable dynamic equilibrium model of the automobile market where new and used cars of multiple types (e.g. makes/models) are traded by heterogeneous consumers. Prices and quantities are determined endogenously to equate supply and demand for all car types and...

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The long run impact of biofuels on food prices

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Moreaux, … - 2012

More than 40% of US grain is now used to produce biofuels, which are used as substitutes for gasoline in transportation. Biofuels have been blamed universally for recent increases in world food prices. Many studies have shown that these energy mandates in the US and EU may have a large (30-60%)...

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Toward a sustainable transport development in Asia and the Pacific

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2011

Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs. Furthermore, to cope up with the reduced export demand from advanced economies arising out of the ongoing financial crisis, the region needs to enhance its connectivity...

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Policies for electrification of the car fleet in the short and long run : subsidizing electric vehicles or subsidizing charging stations?

Hagem, Cathrine; Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; … - 2022

Abatement can be performed by measures that have an impact on present emissions, but no lasting effect, and by long-lived infrastructure investments. We study the optimal combination of short and long-lived options for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, by specifying abatement cost...

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What role for electric vehicles in the decarbonization of the car transport sector in Europe?

Littlejohn, Christina; Proost, Stef - 2019

The transport sector is the only sector where carbon emissions continue to grow. This has led policy makers to propose ambitious policies to reduce emissions in the car sector, in particular fuel efficiency standards, portfolio mandates for Electric Vehicles and purchase taxes or subsidies. A...

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