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Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales
Beach, Brian - 2016
Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine how this affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration districts, spanning 1869 to 1910, with detailed waterworks information. Identification is aided by...
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Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
Dube, Arindrajit - 2011
We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127017
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Privatization and Nationalization Cycles
Chang, Roberto - 2010
This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … determinants of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …
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Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2010
Over the past decades, the steel industry has been protected by a wide variety of trade policies, both tariff- and quota-based. We exploit this extensive heterogeneity in trade protection to examine the well-established theoretical literature predicting nonequivalent effects of tariffs and...
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Reallocation and Technology : Evidence from the U.S. Steel Industry
Collard-Wexler, Allan - 2014
We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel - the minimill - on the aggregate productivity of U.S. steel producers, using unique plant-level data between 1963 and 2002. We find that the sharp increase in the industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and...
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Trade Policy and Market Power : the Case of the Us Steel Industry
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2008
A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms'...
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The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry : Domestic Production and Foreign Competition
Davis, Joseph H. - 2007
This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early...
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Quality Upgrading and its Welfare Cost in U.S. Steel Imports, 1969-74
Boorstein, Randi - 2010
In this paper we measure the quality change which has occurred in U.S. steel imports during the 1969-74 VRA, using an index number method. Under this approach, the yearly changes in unit values is broken into three components: a quality-adjusted or pure price index; a quality index, which...
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Imports as a Cause of Injury : the Case of the U.S. Steel Industry
Grossman, Gene M. - 2021
Recently, the United States International Trade Commission conducted a Section 201 or "escape clause" hearing to determine whether imports have been the most significant cause of injury to the U.S. steel industry. This paper suggests a methodology for conducting the necessary analysis for such...
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Steel Protection in the 1980s : The Waning Influence of Big Steel?
Moore, Michael - 2021
The U.S. integrated steel industry has been very successful in securing import protection over the last 20 years. Critical to that success has been a cohesive coalition of steel producers, the steelworkers' union and 'steel-town' congressional representatives. The political strength of this...
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