Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production

Melvyn A. Fuss

ISBN 10: 0521341418 / ISBN 13: 9780521341417

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and imports for Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States, and these trade flows are heavily influenced by the basic relative competitiveness of the production processes for automotive manufacturing. In this book the authors analyse in depth the factors that contributed to the comparative cost competitiveness of the four countries' auto industries over the period 1961-84, and disentangle the factors contributing to the Japanese cost and efficiency advantages. Their main contribution is to provide estimates of comparative costs of automobile production (both short-run and long-run) and the sources of these cost differences, based on the econometric cost-function methodology. An innovation is the careful treatment of capacity utilization, one of the most important sources of short-run cost and efficiency differences. This methodology is also used effectively in an analysis of the Canada-US Auto Pact, a unique experiment in trade liberalization.

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• Titre: Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521341418
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521341417
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 157 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 157 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 571 grammes

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Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and imports for Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States, and these trade flows are heavily influenced by the basic relative competitiveness of the production processes for automotive manufacturing. In this book the authors analyse in depth the factors that contributed to the comparative cost competitiveness of the four countries' auto industries over the period 1961–84, and disentangle the factors contributing to the Japanese cost and efficiency advantages. Their main contribution is to provide estimates of comparative costs of automobile production (both short-run and long-run) and the sources of these cost differences, based on the econometric cost-function methodology. An innovation is the careful treatment of capacity utilization, one of the most important sources of short-run cost and efficiency differences. This methodology is also used effectively in an analysis of the Canada-US Auto Pact, a unique experiment in trade liberalization.