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Dr. McAlinden completed a doctoral dissertation in economics at the University of Michigan in 1986. He then worked for four years at the Industrial Technology Institute in Ann Arbor as a manufacturing economist. In 1989, he moved to the University of Michigan’s Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation as an associate research scientist. In the fall of 2000, he moved with the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation to direct the Economics and Business Group at the Center for Automotive Research, a not-for-profit institute, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. McAlinden’s current research includes several new studies for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers on the economic contribution of the motor vehicle industry to the U.S. economy. Also, he recently completed studies on the future of automotive value chain, investor expectations of industry performance, automotive sourcing of large sub-assemblies and on the subject of optimal global automotive capacity planning and pricing for a consortia of automotive component firms. Other recent completed studies include those on the subject of state economic policy in automotive facility site decisions, a forecast of future automotive attrition, employment and hiring for the Big Three; the economic significance of the automotive parts industry in the U.S. economy for the U.S. Department of Commerce, and a study of the economic meaning the of the 2003 UAW/Big Three labor negotiations.
Dr. McAlinden currently directs the Michigan Automotive Partnership Program for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the leading automotive advisory group for the government of the State of Michigan, and also directs the Automotive Communities Program an economic development consortia of 22 automotive communities in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Ontario. Dr. McAlinden has been very active in joint labor training in the automotive industry since 1982.
Dr. McAlinden has also performed contract research for U.S. Departments of Commerce, Education and Labor, The Library of Congress, and numerous foundations, corporations, labor unions and state and local agencies. In 1984, he reported directly to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress on the subject of social costs of economic change in the United States. In 1990, he submitted a report to the Auto Parts Advisory Committee, connected to the MOSS talks between U.S. and Japan that forecast the 1994 U.S./Japan Bilateral Automotive Trade Deficit. In 1991 and 1992, he testified directly before the U.S. Senate Banking and Finance Committee and U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee. In the summer of 1992, he contributed the briefing materials on the issues of U.S.-Japan Automotive Trade to the Clinton Presidential Campaign.
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