Evaluation of Effects of "Cash for Clunkers"-like programs on car markets and macroeconomic situation
| Author: | Bc. Florian Fiebig |
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| Year: | 2016 - summer |
| Leaders: | Ing. Vilém Semerák M.A., Ph.D. |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 68 |
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| Link: | https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/165547/ |
| Abstract: | After the financial crisis in 2007-08, governments all over the world tried using several policies in order to promote growth and stability for their economies. On July 1, 2009, the USA launched its policy „Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS)“, commonly known as „Cash for clunkers.“ It was a program designed to boost car sales, by giving the US residents an economic incentive swap their old and economic inefficient cars for brand new models that are more fuel efficient as well as produce less CO2. In the same year, Germany tried to promote growth and stability using the same policy/program. However, this policy did not just had an impact on the German economy, but its neighbors as well. In addition to that, it is interesting to find out if this policy was beneficial to implement or rather harming the economy even further. Although several papers conducted research on the effects of the cash-for-clunkers policy, I will focus on the effects that the German policy had on the Czech economy with specialization on ŠKODA car sales. In my thesis, I will try to analyse how strong the car sales were impacted by the policy as well as if some of the hypotheses are valid. |
