Here is an early draft [pdf: Warrian-Smitka 2015 rev 1] of my analysis of the PACE competition, co-authored with Peter Warrian, with data through 2014.…
PACE paper
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Prof of Economics, Wms School of Commerce, Washington and Lee University, Lexington VA
Blog on Vacation: For recent go to this blog
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This blog will be on vacation until I next teach Economics 244. I continue to periodically post on my joint blog with david ruggles, Autos…
Juan Cruz Mayol
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After a long drive with 10 gb of Professor Smitka’s personal selection of music that I got to sleep through, we finally made it to…
Spring 2014 Texts
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I am busy setting up speaker visits on campus and visits to companies and similar events in Detroit. Meanwhile, here are the texts we’ll use:…
SPRING 2014
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Four intensive weeks – when we have a speaker on campus we likely meet morning, lunch, afternoon and dinner. Detroit trip: we will leave early…
CNG
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Paul Traub’s presentation for us last week at the Chicago Fed Detroit Branch noted the divergence between the price of natural gas and petroleum (diesel,…
Costs in the Japanese auto industry
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…it’s not just OEMs…
Monday I was at the award ceremony for the Automotive News PACE Supplier of the Year competition, for which I’ve been a judge for the past 19 years; more on that in a later post. On Friday (19 April) I spoke on the Japanese auto industry at an UMTRI conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One data point was an overview of the industry; since I begin a new (4-week) term tomorrow (22 April), let me elaborate as indirect class preparation.
Economics 244 website: Spring 2013
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Huntley Room 321, 10:10-11:05 and 1:20pm-3:25pm, Monday – Friday. I’ve linked this site to the Autos and Economics site on Google’s blogspot. We have 3…
auto industry picking up
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Smitka and Ruggles are keeping busy with auto industry functions. The posts of Ruggles reflect on occasion discussions at one or another specialized industry conference…
New Media, New Marketing
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Jack Poor, Guest Post Which media most affects consumer behavior in the Automobile purchase cycle? With the explosion of new and different media options today,…