Did US safeguards resuscitate Harley-Davidson in the 1980s?

Taiju Kitano and Hiroshi Ohashi

Journal of International Economics, 2009, vol. 79, issue 2, 186-197

Abstract: This paper examines US safeguards applied to the motorcycle market in the 1980s. After receiving temporary protection by means of a maximum tariff of over 45%, Harley-Davidson sales recovered dramatically. Simulations, based on structural demand and supply estimates, indicate that while safeguard tariffs did benefit Harley-Davidson, they only account for a fraction of its increased sales. This is primarily because consumers perceived that Harley-Davidson and Japanese large motorcycles were poorly matched substitutes for each other. Our results provide little evidence that safeguard provisions triggered restructuring in Harley-Davidson.

Keywords: Safeguard; Tariff; Random; coefficient; discrete; choice; model; Motorcycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022-1996(09)00095-6
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: Did US Safeguards Resuscitate Harley-Davidson in the 1980s? (2009)
Working Paper: Did U.S. Safeguard Resuscitate Harley Davidson in the 1980s? (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:inecon:v:79:y:2009:i:2:p:186-197

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of International Economics is currently edited by Martin Uribe and Costas Arkolakis

More articles in Journal of International Economics from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().