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Demand Conditions and Worker Safety : Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining
Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2019
of increasing safety rather than production. We study the U.S. metals mining sector, leveraging exogenous demand shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480345
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Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation
Engel, Eduardo - 2008
The government contracts with a foreign firm to extract a natural resource that requires an upfront investment and which faces price uncertainty. In states where profits are high, there is a likelihood of expropriation, which generates a social cost that increases with the expropriated value. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464906
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The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin
Dinkelman, Taryn - 2016
We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized Census and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456625
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Mining and Quasi-Option Value
Costello, Christopher - 2015
damage. As expected, when the environmental damage from mining is known, the socially optimal timing will depend on the … mining until better information arrives. We show conditions under which it is optimal to postpone the mining decision … marginal mine owner is completely indifferent between mining immediately and at any point in the future. Thus, for our problem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457342
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an … cold and warm regions alike and in industries that are not directly related to mining, such as trade, finance and services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460330
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Secrecy Rules and Exploratory Investment : Theory and Evidence from the Shale Boom
Covert, Thomas R.; Sweeney, Richard L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze how information disclosure policy affects investment efficiency in non-cooperative settings with information externalities. In a two-firm, two-period model, we characterize equilibrium behavior under policies which disclose whether investment returns exceed a predefined level. These...
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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis
Card, David - 2000
United Kingdom and Canada: both countries experienced similar slowdowns in the rate of growth of educational attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471112
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Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
Were high import tariffs somehow related to the strong U.S. economic growth during the late nineteenth century? This paper examines this frequently mentioned but controversial question and investigates the channels by which tariffs could have promoted growth during this period. The paper shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471128
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Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector : The Case of Bank Branches
Bartel, Ann P. - 2000
This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471309
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Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Antidumping Duties
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999
We present a model that shows that exchange rate pass-through is likely to be substantially altered when firms face antidumping (AD) duties and that optimal pass-through of AD duties may be up to 200 percent. We examine both pass-through issues using monthly prices across 345 U.S.- imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471406