Automobile marketing practices: finance and insurance. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 26, a resolution to investigate certain problems relating to interstate and foreign commerce ...

Hearings held Mar.18, 1957-Aug.7, 1958.

The Automobile calendar : recent and pending federal activities affecting motor vehicles.

S/N 052-003-00791-6

Technology assessment of changes in the future use and characteristics of the automobile transportation system.

"OTA-T-84."

Evaluation of subsidies programs to sell green cars: Impact on prices, quantities and efficiency

During the recent period of economic crisis, many countries have introduced scrappage schemes to boost the sale and production of vehicles, particularly of vehicles designed to pollute less. In this paper, we analyze the impact of a particular scheme in Spain (Plan2000E) on vehicle prices and sales figures as well as on the reduction of polluting emissions from vehicles on the road. We considered the introduction of this scheme an exogenous policy change and because we could distinguish a control group (non-subsidized vehicles) and a treatment group (subsidized vehicles), before and after the introduction of the Plan, we were able to carry out our analysis as a quasi-natural experiment. Our study reveals that manufacturers increased vehicle prices by the same amount they were granted through the Plan (1,000 €). In terms of sales, econometric estimations revealed an increase of almost 5% as a result of the implementation of the Plan. With regard to environmental efficiency, we compared the costs (inverted quantity of money) and the benefits of the program (reductions in polluting emissions and additional fiscal revenues) and found that the Plan would only be beneficial if it boosted demand by at least 30%.

The impact of agglomeration effects and accessibility on wages

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the effects of agglomeration and road accessibility on productivity of firms by looking at the case of Spain. We approach productivity indirectly by using individual wages allocated at the NUTS III level. We use a repeated cross-section of individual micro-data for the years 1995, 2002 and 2006. The availability of interprovincial travel time data for each of the three years allows controlling for transport improvements over the period by using a market potential variable. Additionally, agglomeration is approached by employment density and we control for localization economies, human capital externalities and a large set of individual and workplace characteristics. Estimating by instrumental variables, our results show a positive and significant effect of market accessibility on wages and non linear effect for employment density.

The Innovation and Imitation Dichotomy in Spanish firms: do absorptive capacity and the technological frontier matter?

This paper analyses whether a firm’s absorptive capacity and its distance from the technological frontier affect the choice between innovation and imitation in innovative Spanish firms. From an extensive survey of 5,575 firms during the 2004-2009 period, we found two significant results. With regard to the role of absorptive capacity, the empirical evidence shows that when innovative firms have difficulties in accessing external information and hire skilled workers, their innovative capacity is reduced. Meanwhile, with regard to distance from the technological frontier, the firms that reduce this gap manage to increase their innovative capacity at the expense of imitation. To summarise, when we studied firms’ absorptive capacity and their relative position to the technological frontier in tandem, we found that the two factors directly affected firms' ability to innovate or imitate.

16th census of the United States: 1940. Census of business: 1939. Retail trade. Commodity sales: motor-vehicle dealers (new); accessory, tire, battery dealers; used-car dealers.

At head of title: U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Jesse H. Jones, Secretary. Bureau of the Census. J.C. Capt, Director ..

Protect labor : an address to the working men by the editor of "America" ; to which are appended statements showing the increase of manufacturing industry and wealth under a protective tariff, rates of wages in Europe as compared with the United States, etc. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Automobile.

Title from cover.

Energy, heavy industry, and the Maine coast; report of the Governor's Task Force.

Cover title.

Balance sheet structure of automobile manufacturing companies; studies in financial structure.

Mode of access: Internet.

Control for profit in a retail automobile dealership

Mode of access: Internet.

Lead and zinc problems. Hearings, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on problems pertaining to the lead and zinc industry and consideration of S. 1747. May 4-5, and July 25, 1961.

Mode of access: Internet.

Final report of the Automobile Labor Board, appointed by the President of the United States under the terms of the auto labor settlement of March 25, 1934.

Lithographed.

Ratios of staff to line personnel in the automotive parts manufacturing industry /

Mode of access: Internet.