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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Competition and Car Longevity
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| Autores: |
Hamilton, Bruce W.
MacAuley, Molly K.
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| Data: |
2005-11-01
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| Ano: |
1998
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| Palavras-chave: |
Market concentration
Automobile industry
Scrappage models
Public Economics
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L9
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| Resumo: |
We examine determinants of the nearly 30 percent increase in the average age of domestically produced, registered automobiles since the mid-1960s. We find that very little of the increase in car longevity is attributable to improvements in the inherent durability of cars. Rather, we find that the temporal pattern of longevity improvement is highly correlated with the level of market concentration in the auto industry. In particular, we argue that the arrival of competition in the industry led to an increase in longevity largely by forcing a reduction in the price of auto maintenance and repair, which in turn induced consumers to maintain their cars into older age.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
18752
http://purl.umn.edu/10581
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Resources for the Future>Discussion Papers
Discussion Paper 98-20
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| Formato: |
31
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