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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Costs and productivity in automobile production
  title info:
    sub title: The challenge of Japanese efficiency
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Fuss, Melvyn A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University
    date issued: 1992
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  physical description:
    form: print
  abstract: Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and/or 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 analyze the factors that contributed to the comparative cost competitiviness of the four countries' auto industries over the period 1961-1984 and disentangle the factors contributing to the Japanese cost and efficiency advantages. The authors 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-U.S. Auto Pact, a unique experiment in trade liberalization. Previous estimates of cost and efficiency differences using the plant inspection and comparison of company financial reports methodologies are also evaluated.
  note: Melvyn A. Fuss
  subject:
    topic: Automobile industry and trade,Automobile industry and trade,Automobile industry and trade,Automobile industry and trade
  subject:
    geographic: Canada,United states,Japan,Germany
  classification: 338.47629
  classification: C842
  record info:
    record creation date: 210402
    record identifier: CTU_98812