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Imports as a Cause of Injury : The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry

Grossman, Gene M. - 1984

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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Trade Policy and Market Power : The Case of the US Steel Industry

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2007

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

Mullin, Joseph C. - 1996

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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Steel Protection in the 1980s : The Waning Influence of Big Steel?

Moore, Michael O. - 1994

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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Quality Upgrading and its Welfare Cost in U.S. Steel Imports, 1969-74

Boorstein, Randi - 1987

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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World War I and the Restructuring of International Business

Fertik, Ted - 2020

This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second … the construction of massive steel works in Brazil and other industrializing countries around the world. These investments … would provide the foundation for the import-substituting policies of the post-World War II era …

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Mining Surplus : Modeling James A. Schmitz's Link Between Competition and Productivity

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2013

James A. Schmitz (2005) documents, in a well-known case study, a dramatic rise in productivity in the U.S. and Canadian iron-ore industry following an increase in competition from Brazil. Prior to the increased competition, the industry was not competitive. Surplus in profits was divided between...

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Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

Bärnighausen, Till - 2009

Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages...

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Measuring International Trade in Services

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006

World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That …

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Learning from Other Economies : The Unique Institutional and Policy Experiments Down Under

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

This paper argues that detailed studies of particular economies, such as Bob Gregory's work on Australia, are relevant …

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