Durable Goods and Used Car Prices

Elizabeth Platt, May 2016. Reposted from the Econ 244 site . As discussed in class, an automobile value depreciates as soon as it’s driven ...

Auto Auctions, Japanese Style

Here're just a few notes on a visit to the Kinki branch of Toyota Auto Auction on a day when they were offering 1,700 vehicles (of whi...

Used Car Prices Aren't Sensible

I don't normally link to other blogs, but here is a neat little post on a behavioral economics study of discontinuity in used car prices...

Selling your car with confidence

Most people thinking of selling their car are increasingly going on to the net to do so. The most popular online car selling site has got t...

The competition for transport: room for cars?

This is the second in a series of guest posts by Mike Smitka's students, drawn from the Economics 244 course blog. ... it's to sel...

Velocity Overdrive, the Road to Reinvention

A Book Review by David Ruggles and comments in italic by Mike Smitka Dale Pollak’s third book, “Velocity Overdrive,” is another winner and i...

Tips for finding the right used car

"DON’T BUY A CAR ONLINE"  is the top tip on The Car People site. They equate the experience to buying a house and I guess, I woul...

The new BMW 3 series and buying used BMW cars

Last month BMW officially announced that the new BMW 3 Series Saloon would be launched here in the UK on 11 February 2012. There would be b...

Used Cars to Avoid

Moneywatch.com has come up with an interesting list of used cars to avoid. Some suggestion in the same range are also given.