Sustainability has become a necessity in the building industry. In recent years, as the general public is more informed and aware of sustainability related issues, they are becoming major players in the decision making process regarding their built environment. However, there are still...

The industrial organization literature has reached the conclusion that the U.S. economy has been moving toward more competition and less concentration in the postwar period. In this study, the authors show that this claim, though accurate through the 1970s, does not hold in the 1980s. The...