Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production: The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency Paperback – Import, 23 Nov 2006

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Review "...useful to readers who want a good and in-depth understanding of the industry in these countries." Kar-Yiu Wong, Journal of Japanese Studies Book Description Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and imports for Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States. In this book the authors analyse 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 and the sources of these cost differences.