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Cyclical and secular developments in the U.S. steel industry
Working Paper
The birth of the competitive market in the steel industry
A regional analysis of the steel industry with emphasis on the economic performance of minimills and integrated mills.
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Competitive pricing behavior in the U.S. steel industry
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Competitive pressure and labor productivity: world iron ore markets in the 1980s
Does the extent of competitive pressure industries face influence their productivity? We study a natural experiment conducted in the iron ore industry as a result of the collapse in world steel production in the early 1980s. For iron ore producers, whose only market is the steel industry, this collapse was an exogenous shock. The drop in steel production differed dramatically by region: it fell by about a third in the Atlantic Basin but only very little in the Pacific Basin. Given that the cost of transporting iron ore is very high relative to its mine value, Atlantic iron ore producers faced ...
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I dream of protective genies
The softwood lumber and steel industries begged for protection from imports. Both got their wish, but has it helped?
Working Paper
Enforcement of pollution regulations in a declining industry
An examination of the effect of EPA enforcement activity as it relates to company plant-closing decisions and company compliance decisions in the U.S. steel industry, finding fewer enforcement actions taken toward plants with an already high probability of closing.
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The impact of firm characteristics on plant closing decisions
An examination of the plant-closing decisions of integrated steel firms in the United States from 1977-1987 to determine whether firm characteristics influenced either the probability or the timing of a plant's closing during this decade of significant industry contraction.
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Comeback for steel?