CARWARS: Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets / James Levinsohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinsohn, James.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5349.

NBER working paper series no. w5349

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

CARWARS

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.

Summary:

This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts. The paper argues that there are structural differences between the way that the auto industries are organized in the U.S. and Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the growing bilateral trade deficit in auto parts. The paper also provides econometric estimates of what would have happened had the threatened 100 percent tariff on Japanese luxury cars not been withdrawn by the U.S.

Notes:

Print version record

November 1995.