Background: Horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and other drilling and well stimulation technologies are now used widely in the United States and increasingly in other countries. They enable increases in oil and gas production, but there has been inadequate attention to human health...

We study the effects of mergers in the Australian petroleum industry during 1980-1994. The effect on the profitability of both the merging and non-merging firms is estimated. There is robust evidence that mergers have been associated with a decrease in profitability for all firms. Thus, the...

This research investigates the relationship between efficiency and firm growth as well as the relationship between firm growth and market structure (CR4) to evaluate whether the quiet-life (QL) and/or efficient structure (ES) hypothesis applies in the Indonesian palm oil industry. This study...