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The Automobile Industry and The Mexico-Us Free Trade Agreement
Berry, Steven - 1992
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/10012474818
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Complementarity and Increasing Returns in Intermediate Inputs : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis
Lopez-de-Silane, Florencio - 1992
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/10012474788
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Trade Liberalization in a Multinational-Dominated Industry : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis
Hunter, Linda - 1991
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/10012475332
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Improving Management through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
Cai, Jing - 2020
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/10012481228
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The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Motor Vehicle Mortality
McCornac, Dennis C. - 1982
This article investigates the impact of a number of policy manipulable variables on the motor vehicle mortality rate of white males between the ages of 15 to 24. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of alcohol. Utilizing data for the tune period 1970 to 1975, multivariate equations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478075
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Misfits in the Car Industry : Offshore Assembly Decisions at the Variety Level
Head, Keith - 2019
This paper estimates the role of country-variety comparative advantage in the decision to offshore assembly of more than 2000 models of 197 car brands headquartered in 23 countries. While offshoring in the car industry has risen from 2000 to 2016, the top five offshoring brands account for half...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479567
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Early 20th Century American Exceptionalism : Production, Trade and Diffusion of the Automobile
Cheng, Dong - 2019
The beginning of the twentieth century provides a unique opportunity to explore the interaction of rapid technological progress and trade barriers in shaping the worldwide diffusion of a new, highly traded good: the automobile. We scrape historical data on the quantity and value of passenger...
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Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Electric Vehicles (Relative to the Car that Wasn’t Bought)
Muehlegger, Erich - 2020
The true net environmental benefit of an electric vehicle (EV) is measured relative to the vehicle that an EV buyer would have bought and driven had they not opted for an EV. This "counterfactual" vehicle cannot be observed, but its fuel economy can be estimated. We use quasi-experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481780
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(S)Cars and the Great Recession
Attanasio, Orazio - 2020
US households' consumption and car purchases collapsed during the Great Recession, for reasons that are still poorly understood. In this paper we use the Consumer Expenditure Survey to derive cohort and business cycle decompositions of consumption profiles. When decomposing the car expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482176
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Car Notches : Strategic Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Policy
Sallee, James M. - 2010
Notches --- where small changes in behavior lead to large changes in a tax or subsidy --- figure prominently in many policies, but have been rarely examined by economists. In this paper, we analyze a class of notches associated with policies aimed at improving vehicle fuel economy. We provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462053