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Competition in the U.S. Energy Industry

A 1975 report to the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation that examines the role of the competition in the production of coal, oil, natural gas and uranium in the United States. The study examines both interfuel and intrafuel competition. The volume also includes supplementary studies by other authors on specific industries and markets, as well as on the political influence of the energy industries.

Duchesneau, Thomas D.
1975
409 pages

Contents
List Of Tables
Preface
Author's Note
Chapter One Introduction: Sources of Energy; Role Of Competition in a Market Economy; Structure, Conduct, and Performance; The Energy Company; Summary
Notes
Chapter Two Market Structure: Significance of Market Structure; Industry Definition; Geographic Boundaries of the Market; Seller Concentration: Levels and Trends; Condition of Entry; Vertical Integration; Summary
Notes
Chapter Three Conduct: Crude Oil; Coal
Summary
Notes
Chapter Four Performance: Prices and Productivity Trends—Oil; Profitability; Technological Progress; Economic Structure and Political Influence
Notes
Chapter Five Public Policy: Findings; Competition Policy
Notes
Index of Appendixes
Appendix a the Geographic Scope of Energy Markets: Oil, Gas and Coal Thomas F. Hogarty*: Commodities and Markets; Economic Theory of Market Areas; Methods of Estimation of Geographic Market Areas; THE GEOGRAPHIC MARKET AREAS FOR GAS, OIL, AND Coal; Conclusions
Notes (Numbers in brackets refer to references, p. 217.)
References
Appendix B Economies of Scale of Firms Engaged in Oil And Coal Production Thomas Gale Moore*: Coal MINING; Multiunit Firms; ECONOMIES OF INTEGRATION WITH NONCoal MINING INTERESTS; Crude Oil; Petroleum Refining; Oil Companies
Note
Data Sources
Bibliography
Appendix C the Coal Industry Reed Moyer: ENTRY CONDITIONS IN Coal MINING; EFFECT OF SHIFT TO LOW SULPHUR WESTERN Coal
Notes
Appendix D Price-Output Behavior in the Coal Industry Reed Moyer*: OUTPUT BEHAVIOR OF NONCoal CO.-CONTROLLED FIRMS; Price Behavior; Policy Alternatives
Notes
Appendix E Potential Competition in Uranium Enriching Thomas Gale Moore: Policy Alternatives
Appendix F the Outlook for Independent Domestic Refiners to the Early 1980S John H. Lichtblau*: Definitions and Characteristics; Impact of Import Control Program; THE INDEPENDENTS AND U.S. Crude Oil PRODUCTION; MARKET SHARE AND Profitability OF THE INDEPENDENTS; The New Oil Import Program; Profit Margins and Refinery Size; Upcoming Changes in Integrated Refinery Operations; FUTURE Profitability OF THE INDEPENDENTS; DOMESTIC Crude Oil AVAILABILITY; U.S. Government Policy and the Independents; Outlook for the Small Independents; New Independent Refineries; Beyond 1980
Notes
Appendix G Firm Size and Technological Change in the Petroleum and Bituminous Coal Industries Edwin Mansfield*: Size Of Firm and R and D Expenditures in the Petroleum Industry; Size Of Firm and Productivity of R and D in the Petroleum Industry; Petroleum Research and Development: Costs, Returns, And Recent Changes; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE BITUMINOUS Coal INDUSTRY; Size Of Firm and Innovation in the Petroleum Industry; SIZE OF FIRM AND INNOVATION IN THE BITUMINOUS Coal INDUSTRY; Comparison with Other Industries; Diffusion of New Techniques in the Petroleum Industry; DIFFUSION OF NEW TECHNIQUES IN THE BITUMINOUS Coal INDUSTRY; Industrial Concentration and the Rate of Diffusion; Merger and Divestiture Policies: Intrafuel; Merger and Divestiture Policies: Interfuel; Gaps, Limitations, and Needed Research
Notes
Appendix H the Relationship Between Economic Structures and Political Power: the Energy Industry Lester M. Salamon* John J. Siegfried: Industry Structure and Political Influence; From Economic and Political Power to Public Policy: Some Empirical Evidence; Summary AND Conclusions
Notes
Appendix I Reviewer Comments: Petroleum Tax Comments in the Duchesneau Study
Index
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