Global Competition in the Car Industry

Investigating the sources of international market segmentation in the car industry is one of the goals of A. Kerem Coşar’s research. In particular, he seeks to disentangle the quantitative role of trade costs affecting firms at the supply side from that of preference heterogeneity of consumers at the demand side. His research also looks for explanations of why firms command a larger share in their domestic than in their foreign markets. He proceeds by using data from the automotive industry to decompose market share gap into its supply- and demand-driven components. While visiting CESifo until April 19, Mr Coşar will continue working on a research project related to global competition in the car industry

Mr Coşar works on a broad range of topics in international and macroeconomics. His research interests are international trade and economic geography, growth and development of countries and the impact of globalisation on workers and firms. A recent working paper, “Roads and Exports: Evidence from Turkey”, investigates the effect of large public investment in expressways undertaken in Turkey during the last decade on regional access to international markets. The objective was to broaden our understanding of how internal trade costs affect regional exports and specialisation.

A. Kerem Coşar is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His PhD in Economics is from Pennsylvania State University. He also holds an MA in Economics and a BA in Management, both from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.