"Kei" Cars in Japan: A "Galapagos" Sector?

Mike Smitka Under Japanese taxation, licensing and inspection systems there are 3 broad classes of cars (and light commercial vehicles): ful...

Globalization

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington & Lee Univ i'm pondering the nature of globalization in the auto industry. In addition, suppliers...

Chinese Financial Scandals

Mike Smitka, Economics, Washington and Lee University We'll continue to see media coverage of financial scandals in China. For example, ...

China's Auto Industry Meltdown: The Last Shall Be First?

Mike Smitka, economics / Washington and Lee First to exit, that is. The rush to enter China has led to a market with too many players with ...

Real Effective Exchange Rates vs Market Rates: the RMB (Chinese yuan)

Mike Smitka, Washington and Lee University Here's a chart I created for my China's Modern Economy class showing the appreciation of...

China's One-child Policy: redundant and now go

Mike Smitka, Prof of Economics, Washington and Lee Here I discuss the end of China's one-child policy. In my weekly WREL economics segme...

Econ Update: WREL Lexington VA

by Mike Smitka, Economics Dept, Washington and Lee University Sept 17 (here) and Sept 24 (below) The Fed – specifically the Federal Open Ma...

Reconsidering China: An Essay

by James Vena | Jun 3, 2014 | Essays | posted by David Ruggles Co-blogger Mike Smitka (住老师 in his China class) comments at the end. He's...

Thursday morning radio: the economy on WREL

Mike Smitka Well, I've gone through another week without a post on the auto industry, but Thursday has come and my WREL Lexington (VA) r...