というNBER論文が上がっている。原題は「The Model T」で、著者はShari Eli(トロント大)、Joshua K. Hausman(ミシガン大)、Paul Rhode(同)。 以下はその要旨。 We ask (1) why the United States adopted the car more quickly than other countries before 1929, and (2) why in the United States the car changed from a luxury to a mass market good between 1909 and 1919. We argue that the answer is in part the success of the Model T in the United States and its