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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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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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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...

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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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U.S. Antidumping Policies : The Case of Steel

Eichengreen, Barry; van der Ven, Hans - 2021

This paper examines the controversy surrounding recent allegations that foreign producers are dumping steel products onto U.S. markets. The paper is in four sections, which take four quite distinct views of dumping and recent U.S. antidumping policies, emphasizing the changing definition of...

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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

This paper examines United States Steel's acquisition by long-term lease of the iron ore properties of the Great Northern Railway. This 1906 transaction, which significantly increased U.S. Steel's already substantial ore holdings, has been characterized by contemporary observers and modern...

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Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade after the Civil War?

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper considers the impact of import tariffs on the domestic pig iron industry, the basic building block of the entire...

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Geographic Spillover of Unionism

Holmes, Thomas J. - 2021

Unionism in the United States is contagious; it spills out of coal mines and steel mills into other establishments in the neighborhood, like hospitals and supermarkets. The geographic spillover of unionism is documented here using a newly constructed establishment level data on unionism that is...

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Opportunity Counts : Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives

Boning, Brent; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn - 2021

This paper investigates the individual and joint effects of group incentive pay and problem-solving teams on productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34...

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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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