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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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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...

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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels

Delmas, Magali A. - 2014

In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...

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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...

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Idea Diffusion and Property Rights

Jovanovic, Boyan - 2020

We study the innovation and diffusion of technology at the industry level. We derive the full dynamic paths of an …

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Market Structure and Innovation : A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automobile Industry

Hashmi, Aamir Rafique - 2010

We study the relationship between market structure and innovation in the global automobile industry from 1982 to 2004 … using the dynamic industry framework of Ericson and Pakes (1995). Firms optimally choose a continuous level of innovation in … parameter -- the cost of innovation. In terms of the relationship between market structure and innovation, we find that: (1) At …

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In Search of Substitution Between Foreign Production and Exports

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999

Are foreign production and exports substitutes or complements? The continuing globalization of production makes the question of the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment ever more important. Standard theory of the multinational corporation (MNC) assumes substitution, while...

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Environmental Change and Hedonic Cost Functions for Automobiles

Berry, Steven - 1996

This paper focuses on how changes in the economic and regulatory environment have affected production costs and product characteristics in the automobile industry. We estimate cost functions characteristics. Then we examine how this cost surface has changed over time and how these changes relate...

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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute

Krishna, Kala - 1996

Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...

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Explaining Domestic Content : Evidence from Japanese and U.S. Auto Production in the U.S

Swenson, Deborah L. - 1996

This paper studies the domestic content decisions of auto makers in the U.S. between 1984 and 1993 using foreign trade zone activity as a tool by which one can observe individual sourcing and production. The results show that although the domestic content of Japanese firms is rising, differences...

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