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Cyclical and secular developments in the U.S. steel industry
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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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Can steel compete?
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The steel trigger price mechanism
An examination of the 1978 steel trigger price mechanism, with a description of its operation and economic impact, and a discussion of events that led to its suspension in 1982.
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Imports and domestic steel
A history of the struggle between producers of imported and domes- tic steel, and a discussion of long-term trends in the steel industry.
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Comeback for steel?
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Steel imports
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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 ...