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The Automobile Industry and the Mexico-Us Free Trade Agreement
Berry, Steven; Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; Grilli, Vittorio - 2021
This paper considers the likely effect on the automobile industry of a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico …. As there are currently large restrictions on imports into Mexico, one important outcome of a free trade agreement would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229124
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Trade Liberalization in a Multinational-Dominated Industry : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis
Hunter, Linda - 2010
A theoretical model is developed and applied to the North American auto industry, motivated by the possibility of US-Mexico …. Using an applied GE model, we find that (A) the gains to Mexico are significant and the effects on the US and Canada are … North American multinationals determine markups, increased imports from Mexico do not result in a rationalization of US and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139985
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Complementarity and Increasing Returns in Intermediate Inputs : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis
Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; Markusen, James R.; … - 2021
Conventional analysis in the trade-industrial-organization literature suggests that, when a country has some market power over an imported good, some small level of protection must be welfare improving. This is essentially a terms-of-trade argument that is reinforced if the imported goods are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225141
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Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
Cai, Jing; Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2022
Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We find that providing feedback leads to significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300787
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Carwars : Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets
Levinsohn, James A. - 2012
This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts. The paper argues that there are structural differences between the way that the auto industries are organized in the U.S. and Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102060
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Automobiles on Steroids : Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2009
New car fleet fuel economy, weight and engine power have changed drastically since 1980. These changes represent both movements along and shifts in the "fuel economy/weight/engine power production possibilities frontier". This paper estimates the technological progress that has occurred since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157925
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The Non-Optimality of Optimal Trade Policy : The U.S. Automobile Indust Ry Revisited, 1979-1985
Krishna, Kala - 2010
We examine the sensitivity of simple calibration models of trade in imperfectly competitive industries to changes in model specification, as well as to changes in the calibration parameters. We find that not just the magnitude, but also the sign of the optimal trade policies is very sensitive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760165
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Corrective Policy and Goodhart's Law : The Case of Carbon Emissions from Automobiles
Reynaert, Mathias - 2016
Firms sometimes comply with externality-correcting policies by gaming the measure that determines policy. We show theoretically that such gaming can benefit consumers, even when it induces them to make mistakes, because gaming leads to lower prices by reducing costs. We use our insights to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977637
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Cash for Corollas : When Stimulus Reduces Spending
Hoekstra, Mark - 2014
The 2009 Cash for Clunkers program aimed to stimulate consumer spending in the new automobile industry, which was experiencing disproportionate reductions in demand and employment during the Great Recession. Exploiting program eligibility criteria in a regression discontinuity design, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049694
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The State of the North American and Japanese Motor Vehicle Industries : A Partially Calibrated Model to Examine the Impacts of Trade Policy Changes
Fuss, Melvyn; Murphy, Steven; Waverman, Leonard - 2021
In this paper we utilize a three component model of the automotive industry to simulate the impacts of various trade policy scenarios, such as changes in tariffs and quotas, on the U.S. and Canadian motor vehicle sectors as compared to their Japanese competitors. The three components are a cost...
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