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

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.Leonard Waverman is the author of 'Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production: The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency', published 1992 under ISBN 9780521341417 and ISBN 0521341418.