Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...

Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...

The Economic and Budgetary Effects of Producing Oil and Natural Gas from Shale / Ron Gecan, Natalie Tawil and Mark Lasky -- U.S. Shale Gas Development : Production, Infrastructure, and Market Issues / Michael Ratner -- Potential Budgetary Effects of Immediately Opening Most Federal Lands to Oil...

This paper empirically investigates banks' investment allocations over the recent business cycle. I identify unsolicited deposit shocks resulting from unconventional energy development and estimate bank allocations of these deposits. In the pre-recession period, banks lend 38 percent of...