Trade and the Automobile sector

Treball Final de Grau en Economia. Codi: EC1049. Curs acadèmic: 2020/2021The present work aims to study the tendency experienced in the global automobile sector and what is its current situation. To begin with, a review of the existing literature is explained and after that, the current characteristics of the sector are described. Among the different topics that are investigated in this paper, there will also be an emphasis on the current business mergers and what their implications are for concentration indices. Furthermore, there will be a focus on how important trade policies have been for the current development of the sector, as well as on the most recent events. In addition to analyzing this industry worldwide, we will also comment on the Spanish situation and whether it differs from the world trend or, on the contrary, it converges. To sum up, an economic estimate has been made and in which the factors that influence passenger car registrations in Spain will be calculated through a time series from 2002 to 2020