| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18005 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18005 |
| Would You Buy a Honda Made in the U.S.? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality | |
| Nicola Lacetera; Justin R. Sydnor | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-04-17 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Are location-specific factors--such as the education and attitude of the local workforce, supplier networks, institutional infrastructure, and local "culture"--important for understanding persistent heterogeneities among firms? We address this question in the context of the automobile industry. Using a unique data set of over 565,000 used-car transactions at wholesale auctions, we test whether the long-run value and quality of otherwise identical cars depends on the country of assembly. We exploit the natural experiment provided by the establishment of assembly plants in the U.S. by Japanese auto manufacturers, and the fact that some of the most popular Japanese car models are assembled both in Japan and the U.S. We find evidence that the Japan-assembled cars on average sell for more than those built in the U.S., but the estimated difference is only $62. The average differences are driven almost entirely by older-model Toyotas, for which we find a more meaningful difference between the Japanese and U.S. built cars. For Hondas and more recent models of Toyotas, the Japan-built cars are no more valuable than those built in the U.S. These results suggest that Japanese automakers have been successful, though perhaps with some lag, at transferring their high-quality practices to their U.S. transplants. Our findings also suggest that there is not an inherent limitation to the U.S. manufacturing environment that prevents the production of high-quality cars in America. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18005 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575680 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nicola Lacetera,Justin R. Sydnor. Would You Buy a Honda Made in the U.S.? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality. 2012. |
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| w18005.pdf（738KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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