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Automobile Market (automobile + market)

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Selected Abstracts

THE SURVIVAL OF DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS: AN APPLICATION TO THE UK AUTOMOBILE MARKET, 1971,2002*

THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 3 2009
FRANCISCO REQUENA-SILVENTE
We investigate how competition affected the survival of products in the UK automobile market between 1971 and 2002. We find, after using a host of controls to account for product characteristics and changes in market structure, that (i) within and between firm spatial competition significantly reduces the life of a model, (ii) initial product differentiation and variant proliferation obviate competition, and (iii) product innovation significantly extends model survival. [source]

Politics of Scale and the Globalization of the South Korean Automobile Industry

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2003
Bae-Gyoon Park
Abstract: This article explains the liberalization and globalization of the South Korean automobile industry, with an emphasis on the multiscalar processes of globalization. In particular, it explores the processes by which the South Korean government shifted its policy for the automobile industry, from a nationalist and protectionist orientation toward liberalization in the late 1990s, which, in turn, attracted inward investments from foreign automakers and facilitated the globalization of the nation's automobile market. While exploring the roles of diverse actors and forces,operating at various geographic scales,in these processes, I placed more analytical weight on examining the ways in which contestation between national and local forces contributed to the government's liberalization policy. I argue that the globalization of the South Korean automobile industry in recent years was not only an outcome of the globalizing strategies of foreign automakers, but also was facilitated by an institutional fix by the nation-state (particularly the liberalization of policy) to a regulatory deficit, which stemmed from the national-local tension with respect to a state-led economic restructuring project. [source]

Design Vulnerability Analysis and Design Improvement by Using Warranty Data

QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2004
Kai Yang
Abstract Continuous improvement in reliability is one of the key factors to success in the world automobile market. Good reliability can only be achieved through good design and manufacturing practice. Manufacturers want to allocate their limited resources to improvement in such a way that they can get the highest benefits. The warranty claims database contains more information than any other test for the reliability of products in actual use. Assisted by a design vulnerability index derived from the axiomatic design principle, warranty data can be used to identify the areas of the product such that the improvement of these areas will maximize the gain in reliability improvement. In this paper, we provide a methodology of utilizing warranty data to prioritize design improvement efforts based on design vulnerability and the feedback from warranty data. The methodology is illustrated with an example case. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

THE SURVIVAL OF DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS: AN APPLICATION TO THE UK AUTOMOBILE MARKET, 1971,2002*

THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 3 2009
FRANCISCO REQUENA-SILVENTE
We investigate how competition affected the survival of products in the UK automobile market between 1971 and 2002. We find, after using a host of controls to account for product characteristics and changes in market structure, that (i) within and between firm spatial competition significantly reduces the life of a model, (ii) initial product differentiation and variant proliferation obviate competition, and (iii) product innovation significantly extends model survival. [source]

World Trade in Used Automobiles: A Gravity Analysis of Japanese and US Exports,

ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 2 2006
Danilo Pelletiere
F13; F14; C20 We estimate a gravity model of Japanese and US exports of used automobiles that incorporates an original, ordered measure of protection in global, used automobile markets. The model confirms that, overall, protection by our measure is suppress-ive and often statistically significant and that what we term ,Grubel income effects' are present. However, Japanese export behavior appears to differ in some important respects from that of the USA, with distance and protection levels being less significant and left-hand side driving patterns being a critical explanatory variable. [source]