Regulatory capture can generate significant social and economic costs, particularlyin dangerous occupations. In this article I evaluate whether political influence hasallowed firms to systematically evade safety and health regulations using data from oneof the country’s most dangerous...

Negative policy spillovers can undermine the social effectiveness of well-intentioned regulations. We evaluate whether environmental regulations that shifted electricity generation from coal to natural gas, reducing emissions, had an effect on electricity price volatility. We use emergency...

ABSTRACTThis research examines three aspects of upstream oil and gas management covering organizational choice, safety and environmental performance, and hurricane evacuation decision making. The work applies current microeconomic and econometric methods to structure practical management...

ABSTRACTCHAPTER 1: A Structural Empirical Model of R&D Investment, Firm Heterogeneity, and Industry EvolutionThis paper develops and estimates a structural model of R&D investment and productivity evolution of manufacturing plants in the Korean electric motor industry from 1991 to 1996....

This thesis aims to contribute to a further understanding of the real dynamics of OPEC production behavior and its impacts on the world oil market. A literature review in this area shows that the existing studies on OPEC still have some major deficiencies in theoretical interpretation and...