Hendrik Hering, Wirtschaftsminister von Rheinland-Pfalz, sieht im »Fall« Opel keinen Einzelfall, Tag für Tag fände genau eine solche Unterstützung bei zahlreichen kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen statt. Es sei richtig gewesen, Opel zu helfen. Nun sei GM an der Reihe. Der Staat...

This paper uses a unique data set of monthly new vehicle sales by detailed model from 1978-2007, and implements a new identification strategy to estimate the effect of the price of gasoline on consumer demand for fuel economy. We control for unobserved vehicle and consumer characteristics by...

Globalization has led to exciting new business opportunities around the globe. Still, national and cultural boundaries have not evaporated into a "borderless world". Several studies have identified so-called liabilities of foreignness that arise from a lack of embeddedness and roots in the host...

Multimarket contact is perceived to be one of those factors, which can facilitate and sustain implicit collusive (cooperative) arrangements. This paper attempts to develop new approaches to study the interdependence of firm behaviour across markets, especially in the context of differentiated...

This paper aims to study geographical and multi-product linkages of markets (multiple market presence) and firm behaviour interdependence as a result of such linkages existence. In particular, it attempts to answer whether the multimarket linkages lead to more cooperative behaviour among the...

Der Automobilmarkt in China boomt. Das anhaltende chinesische Wirtschaftswachstum und die fallenden Fahrzeugpreise in Folge des Beitritts zur Welthandelsorganisation führen zu einem erheblichen Anstieg der privaten Nachfrage nach Automobilen. Prognosen gehen davon aus, dass China bis Ende...

Die vorliegenden Arbeit möchte westliche Wirtschaftstheorien und ökonometrische Methoden unter Berücksichtigung der chinesischen Besonderheiten auf die Untersuchungen der nationalen Pkw-Nachfrage in China anwenden und damit den Absatzmarkt analysieren sowie eine Grundlage zur Prognose...

This paper is concerned with rules of origin when intermediate goods aredifferentiated. An analytical model emphasizes trade patterns and the relativeimportance of trade in intermediates given trade preferences. Econometric evidencebased on intra-OECD trade in motor vehicles and motor vehicle...

In addition to efficiency standards and consumer information, car-related taxes constitute one of three pillars of the European Commission¿s strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from passenger cars. A longstanding question concerns the effectiveness of such taxes in determining the car-purchasing...

This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of demand in the German automobile industry. Our primary goal is to refine the existing literature on that topic by exploring the impact of uniqueness seeking behaviour of individuals on the demand schedule. Using a dataset on the segment of...