By common account, the reorganizations of Chrysler and General Motors were extraordinary cases, very much alike, but different from any other. Government intervention on such a scale is not likely to recur and, given their peculiar character, these bankruptcies offer few lessons for corporate...

This paper presents a dynamic model for light motor vehicles. Consumers solve an optimal stopping problem in deciding if they want a new automobile and when in the model year to purchase it. This dynamic approach allows for determining how the mix of consumers evolves over the model year and for...

The article focuses on the different aspects of hybrid cars, better say hybrid electric cars as a budding segment in the automobile industry. A hybrid car must have two fuel injections in the engine to be titled as hybrid, one is electricity and the other may be petrol, diesel, and gasoline. The...

In the fifth year of its activities CARS focused on the pursuit of a number of goals set in its founding documents. It was a particularly busy year for its Publishing Programme which saw the issue of 6 separate titles: two monographs, an English language textbook, a collective works and two...

Manheim Interactive is a subsidiary of Manheim Auctions, a 55-year old brickand-mortar firm that is the number one player in offline vehicle remarketing. Since 1996, Manheim has been remarketing used automobiles over the Internet. Manheim Interactive has found that the strength of the Manheim...

A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or its sales subsidiary. It employs automobile salespeople to do the selling. It may also provide maintenance services for cars, thus...

It is generally understood that automakers face a tradeoff between fuel economy and other automobile attributes, e.g., size, weight and horsepower, given the state of technology. In line with previous studies in the literature, we estimate the technology frontier using automobile specifications...

Innovation in the automobile sector, is happening at a fast pace, especially in terms of environment friendly-technologies. This paper is an exploratory study to understand how technology is evolving in this sector, in context to electric vehicles (EV). For this, patent data, the classic proxy...

Purpose: The automobile industry has been widely accepted as a major influencer in the growth of country’s economy and an important contributor to the global market as well. It is also been considered as a capital-intensive industry with the scope of vertical integration and economies of...