Measuring Policy Barriers in the American Steel Industry, 1950--1998

Finally, I also perform an event study on stock prices of major American steelmakers, to test the direction and strength of market reaction toward capital-investment related announcements. My results show that investors responded favorably to sound investment decisions, that major steelmakers were not held back from innovation by Net Present Value considerations alone, and thereby justifying the institutional emphasis of this study.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Dutta, Arijit

Contributors dc:contributor

• Neal, Larry

• Economics, General

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3153291

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85548