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Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production: The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency
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Melvyn A. Fuss (University of Toronto) Leonard Waverman (University of Toronto)

Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production

The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency

Melvyn A. Fuss (University of Toronto),  Leonard Waverman (University of Toronto)

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Cambridge University Press
07 September 1992
Road vehicle manufacturing industry; Road transport industries
Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and 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 in depth the factors that contributed to the comparative cost competitiveness of the four countries' auto industries over the period 1961-84, and disentangle the factors contributing to the Japanese cost and efficiency advantages. Their main contribution is to 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.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 238mm,  Width: 158mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   476g
ISBN:   9780521341417
ISBN 10:   0521341418
Pages:   256
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. International differences in output, productivity and wages in the automobile industry: the 1950s to the mid-1980s; 3. The cost-function approach to the analysis of cost and total factor productivity differences; 4. Data base sources and method of construction; 5. Empirical results: estimation of the cost function; 6. Productivity growth in the automobile industry, 1970–84: a comparison of the United States, Japan, Germany and Canada; 7. International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Japan, Germany and the United States; 8. International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Canadian with US, Japanese and German production; 9. Summary and conclusions; References; Index.

Reviews for Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production: The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency

...useful to readers who want a good and in-depth understanding of the industry in these countries. Kar-Yiu Wong, Journal of Japanese Studies


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