The U. S. Steel Industry in Recurrent Crisis: Policy Options in a Competitive World

Robert Crandall

doi:10.5771/9780815719717

Summary

This book examines the current difficulties facing the U.S. steel industry and policy options to tackle them.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2011
Copyright Year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8157-1601-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8157-1971-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
1. The Trade Policy Crisis No access
2. A Chronic Problem No access
3. The Plan of the Book No access
1. Steel Production Technology No access
2. The Size Distribution of Integrated Firms No access
3. The Smaller Nonintegrated U.S. Companies No access
4. The Growth in the U.S. Steel Market No access
1. The Post-World War II Adjustment No access
2. The Painful 1960s No access
3. The Industry's Financial Performance No access
4. Price Behavior since the 1950s No access
5. Employment and the Problem of Labor Intensity No access
6. The Increase in Labor Rates No access
7. The Burden of Regulation No access
8. Trade Policy and the Crisis of 1977 No access
9. Summary No access
1. The Setting No access
2. The Model of Prices and Import Penetration No access
3. The Empirical Model No access
4. The Empirical Results No access
5. Summary: The Relevance of the Results No access
1. The Cost of Building Capacity in the United States No access
2. International Comparisons of Capital Costs No access
3. An Operating Profile of Greenfield Facilities No access
4. Modernization of U.S. Mills No access
5. International Comparisons of Greenfield Operating Costs No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. Arguments for Trade Protection No access
2. The Effect of Trade Protection for Steel since 1969 No access
3. Summary No access
1. How Much Capacity? No access
2. Stimulating New-Plant Investment No access
3. Trade Protection No access
4. Reducing the Cost of Capital No access
5. Inventory Accumulation No access
6. Long-Term Contracts No access
7. Summary No access
1. Distributional Effects of Trigger Prices No access
2. Effects of Protection Required to Generate New Plant Construction No access
3. Economic Welfare No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. U.S. Industry Prospects No access
2. Whither U.S. Trade Protection? No access
3. The OECD Steel Committee—A World Cartel? No access
4. Summary and Conclusions No access
1. A. Description of Data No access
2. B. Additional Regression Results No access
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