EC Single Market and Japanese Automobile Industry

An Analysis of Japanese Automobile Market in Market Equilibrium

Analyzing consumers’ product preferences has become more powerful tool as information technology progresses and marketing methods improves. Using POS data, we can analyze consumers characteristics and their diversity. In many cases, however, we may not be able to get hold of the individually-based micro data. In this paper, we empirically analyze Japanese automobile market using market-level ag...

Automobile Industry

Literature Review Automobile Industry Abhijeet Singh and Brijesh Kumar (2011) Hero Honda Motors Ltd, is running a program called Good life Passport to Relationship Reward, with an objective to create an innovative environment for interaction between Hero Honda and its customers. Members of this program are given a magnetic card in which all information is stored and this card is swiped when usi...

Intra-Industry Trade and Labour Market Adjustment in the Automobile Industry

This paper examines the effects of increased intra-industry trade on the labour market adjustment costs in Portugal’s automobile industry. Using a static and dynamic panel data approach, the results show a negative correlation between changes of employment and marginal intra-industry trade. These results confirm the smooth adjustment hypothesis, as well as suggesting that the multinational comp...

Alternative Component Sourcing Strategies within the Manufacturer- Supplier Network: Benefits of Quasi-Market Strategy in the Japanese Automobile Industry

Inventories and the automobile market

This paper studies the within-model-year pricing, production, and inventory management of new automobiles. Using new monthly data on U.S. transaction prices, we document that, for the typical vehicle, prices fall over the model year at a 9.0 percent annual rate. Concurrently, both sales and inventories are hump shaped. To explain these time series, we formulate an industry model for new automob...