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Competition in the U.S. Energy Industry







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Footnote :

1. See Oliver E. Williamson, "The Vertical Integration of Production: Market Failure Considerations," American Economic Review, May 1971, pp. 112-123.

DATA SOURCES

U.S. Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: 1972 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972).

U.S. Bureau of Mines. "Injury Experience in Coal Mining, 1968," prepared by F.T. Moyer and Mary B. McNair (U.S. Department of Interior, 1972).

U.S. Bureau of the Census. Enterprise Statistics: 1967, Part 1—General Report on Industrial Organization (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1972).

U.S. Bureau of the Census. Census of Mineral Industries: 1958 and 1963, Vol. 1, Summary and Industry Statistics (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1961, 1967).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Joe S. Bain. Barriers to New Competition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965).

John R. Moroney. "Cobb-Douglas Production Functions and Returns to Scale in U.S. Manufacturing Industry," Western Economic Journal, VI (December, 1967), pp. 39-51.

Reed Moyer. Competition in the Midwestern Coal Industry (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964).

C.F. Pratten. Economies of Scale in Manufacturing Industry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971).

C. Pratten and R.M. Dean. The Economies of Large-Scale Production in British Industry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965).

T.R. Saving. "Estimation of Optimum Size Plant by the Survivor Technique," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXXV (November, 1961), pp. 569-607.

William G. Shepherd. "What Does the Survivor Technique Show About Economies of Scale?" The Southern Economic Journal (July 1967), pp. 113-22.

George J. Stigler. "The Economies of Scale," The Journal of Law and Economics, 1 (October 1958), pp. 54-71.

U.S. Congress, House Subcommittee on Special Small Business Problems of the Select Committee on Small Business, Hearings on Concentration by Competing Raw Fuel Industries in the Energy Market and Its Impact on Small Business, 92nd Congress, First session.

Leonard W. Weiss. "The Survival Technique and the Extent of Suboptimal Capacity," The Journal of Political Economy, LXXII (June 1964), pp. 246-61.