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Efficient Contracting and Market Power : Evidence from the U.S. Natural Gas Industry

Hubbard, R. Glenn; Weiner, Robert J. - 2021

It is well recognized by economists that long-term contracting under an array of price and non-price provisions may be an efficient response to small-numbers bargaining problems. Empirical work to distinguish such issues from predictions of models of market power and bargaining has been sparse,...

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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Cesur, Resul - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...

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The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Production : Measuring Tax Subsidies by an Equivalent Price Impact Approach

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2016

This paper presents a novel methodology for estimating impacts on domestic supply of oil and natural gas arising from changes in the tax treatment of oil and gas production. It corrects a downward bias when the ratio of aggregate tax expenditures to domestic production is used to measure the...

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Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency : Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power

Davis, Lucas W. - 2011

percent increase in operating efficiency, achieved primarily by reducing the frequency and duration of reactor outages. At … average wholesale prices the value of this increased efficiency is approximately $2.5 billion annually and implies an annual …

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Health Insurance Provision and Labor Market Efficiency in the United States

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2010

do not alter this aspect of labor market efficiency …

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United States Steel'S Acquisition of the Great Northern Ore Properties : Vertical Foreclosure or Efficient Contractual Governance?

Mullin, Joseph C.; Mullin, Wallace P. - 2021

qualitative evidence to support an alternative view that the lease generated a net efficiency gain, resulting in lower steel …

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Efficiency Effects on the U.S. Economy from Wireless Taxation

Hausman, Jerry A. - 2021

This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are … thereby suppress demand for service, imposing an efficiency loss on the economy of $0.53 for every $1 currently raised in … taxes. Prospective taxes will impose an efficiency loss of $0.72-$1.14 per additional dollar of tax revenue raised …

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Shock Value : Bill Smoothing and Energy Price Pass-Through

Hausman, Catherine - 2018

Energy prices are volatile, affect every consumer and industry in the economy, and are impacted by regulations including gas taxes and carbon pricing. Like the pass-through literature in general, the growing energy pass-through literature focuses on marginal prices. However, multi-part pricing...

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality : Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Cesur, Resul - 2013

Natural gas has emerged as an increasingly attractive source of energy since it is highly efficient, abundant, and cleaner than any other fossil fuel. In this paper, we examine the impact of widespread adoption of natural gas as a source of fuel on infant mortality in Turkey, using variation...

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Theft and Taxes

Desai, Mihir A. - 2010

This paper analyzes the interaction between corporate taxes and corporate governance. We show that the characteristics of a taxation system affect the extraction of private benefits by company insiders. A higher tax rate increases the amount of income insiders divert and thus worsens governance...

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