METROPOLIS proposes an interactive environment which simulates automobile traffic in large urban areas. The core of the system is a dynamic simulator ehich integrates commuters' departure time and route choice behavirs over large networks: Drivers are assumed to minimize a generalized travel...

Cet article a pour objet d'analyser les strategies de prix d'une firme en monopole sur son marche domestique et en duopole sur un autre marche europeen. Le produit est vendu par le biais d'un reseau de distribution exclusive dans les deux pays. La firme peut etre concurrencee sur son propre...

In this note we examine how vertical relationships are related to the efficiency of the operations in the automotive production chain. We first provide an overview of the nature of supplier arrangements by comparing current practices in the countries Japan, US, and Germany. Current best...

We investigate the effects of “Cash for Clunkers”, a $3 billion economic stimulus program, on new vehicle sales, employment, gasoline consumption, and the environment. Using Canada as the control group in a difference-in-differences framework, we find that the program increased new vehicle...

A model of optimal car replacement is developed and used to examine the impact of alternative policy measures on the optimal car replacement time and on total emissions of pollutants, when environment policy takes the form of: (i) reduced taxes on purchaso of "clean" cars, (ii) administrative...

Using a structural model of demand for automobile engine variants, this paper finds that there is second-degree price discrimination: markups increase with engine size. Still, average markups are lower than when models have just one engine. The paper develops the first empirical demand framework...

The paper addresses entry barriers for a new technology – hydrogen powered cars or cars with fuel cell engines – if the network of its filling stations is missing. We use Hotelling’s model of product differentiation to characterize a situation where an incumbent firm produces the old...