Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Gasoline Taxes: An Econometrically Based Multi-market Study. [PDF]
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Bento, Antonio M +4 more
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The U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry: Confronting a New Dynamic in the Global Economy [PDF]
, 2010 [Excerpt] This report provides an in-depth analysis of the 2009 crisis in the U.S. auto industry and its prospects for regaining domestic and global competitiveness.
Canis, Bill, Yacobucci, Brent D
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Policy for better Air Quality in Asia: Proposal for a Policy Evaluation Method for four ASEAN Countries. [PDF]
Four ASEAN countries Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are facing major air pollution problems due to rapid economic growth, urbanization and motorization.
Hirota, Keiko
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Socioeconomic Differences in Household Automobile Ownership Rates: Implications for Evacuation Policy [PDF]
, 2006 The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina has laid bare many of the disparities that continue to separate Americans by race and class. One disparity that was immediately apparent in Katrina’s aftermath concerned the size and composition of the area’s population lacking access to an automobile.
Raphael, S, Berube, A, Deakin, Elizabeth
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Industrial loan companies: a growing industry sparks a public policy debate [PDF]
Industrial loan companies, or ILCs, are a small, but rapidly growing part of the financial industry. These state-chartered institutions operate in seven states and have nearly all of the same powers as commercial banks.
Eric Robbins, Kenneth Spong
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1957 survey of consumer finances: housing and durable goods [PDF]
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Alfred P. Johnson
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Suburbanization and the Automobile [PDF]
During the period 1910 to 1970, an increasing fraction of the urban population in the US chose to live on the outskirts of central cities. This was also a time when a major innovation in transportation technology, the automobile, was introduced and ...
Karen A. Kopecky, Richard M. H. Suen
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Completing contracts ex post: How car manufacturers manage car dealers [PDF]
This article illustrates how contracts are completed ex post in practice and, in so doing, indirectly suggests what the real function of contracts may be.
Benito Arruñada +2 more
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The Relationship between Consumption, Labor Supply and Fertility: Theory and Evidence from Japan [PDF]
We present an alternative explanation of the positive relationship between total fertility rate (TFR) and female labor participation rate (FLPR) observed in recent cross section of OECD countries.
Aoki, Reiko, Konishi, Yoko
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Outward FDI and Knowledge Flows: A Study of the Indian Automotive Sector [PDF]
In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash, Singh, Neelam
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