Given that Congressional hearings are established legislative and political information generating tools for committee members engaging in oversight, fact finding, and agenda setting, I examine whether or not hearings provide information to actors outside of government. More specifically, does...

This study investigates the use of discretion by oil and gas companies in reporting financial performance and oil and gas reserve estimates during times of high political scrutiny resulting from increases in energy prices. Hypotheses tested in prior literature state that companies facing the...

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1. Introduction Power industry deregulation and electricity market restructuring, which began in Chile in the 1980s and then spread to Norway, New Zealand and the UK, were introduced in the United States with the passage of the Energy Policy Act (EPA) of 1992 (Jameson, 1997). The EPA and...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction. p.1 -- 1. Early years in the West. p.7 -- 2. Oil and railroads in Southern California, 1892-1902. p.23 -- 3. The birth of the Mexican oil industry, 1900-1910. p.52 -- 4. Return to California, 1908-1912. p.87 -- 5. Creating an international oil company, 1912-1915....

This study analyzes the long-term evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry, and offers a new synthesis of the dynamic forces that spearheaded the expansion and transformation of this large manufacturing industry. The evolution of the North American pulp and paper industry between...

The great bulk of the J. Reuben Clark Jr. papers were inventoried in 1967. This register is only of the Clark papers that have come to the library since that time. ; Historical note; This addendum contains a variety of papers that cover the full life span of Mr. Clark. However, the great bulk of...

This study explained the diversity of corporate financial practices in two nations. Existing studies have emphasized the reliance on equity finance in U.S. firms and bank loans in Japanese firms. In fact, patterns of corporate finance were much more complex. Financial institutions, which were...

Banner week in stock value. - 4345,227 sales total in last five days on standard stock exchange. - Ten issues make gains. - Led by Pend Oreille, Grandview and Tamarack -- Cork, Jim, Montana and Sherman up. - The volume of trading on the Standard Stock exchange in the last five days of the week...

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