Regulations and their impact on the Automotive Industry

Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 3.0, European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel, language: English, abstract: Over the last decades there have been numerous regulations and political decisions that influenced the car industry. To these belong simple regulations for emissions, subsidies for specific car forms but not at last also political decisions and developments all over the world. This paper describes some of the important developments over the last decades and their influence on the automotive industry. Furthermore, it is tried to identify learnings from these past developments and future potentials for improvement.