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Relinquishing Riches: Auctions versus Informal Negotiations in Texas Oil and Gas Leasing
The American Economic Review, 2023This paper compares outcomes from informally negotiated oil and gas leases to those awarded via centralized auction. We focus on Texas, where legislative decisions in the early twentieth century assigned thousands of proximate parcels to different ...
Thomas R. Covert, Richard L. Sweeney
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Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, 2022
An economic evaluation of mega projects is very important for taking into account important aspects connected with investment and operation costs, their possible overflows and the fulfilment of the time period intended for the project.
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay +4 more
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An economic evaluation of mega projects is very important for taking into account important aspects connected with investment and operation costs, their possible overflows and the fulfilment of the time period intended for the project.
Saurabh Bandyopadhyay +4 more
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Labour and megaprojects: Rethinking productivity and industrial relations policy
Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2021The coronavirus pandemic has brought industrial relations policy to the centre of attention in many countries. In 2020, the Australian government convened tripartite bodies to address policy in several areas, one being for agreement-making to cover ...
B. Ellem
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Who Benefits from Information Disclosure? The Case of Retail Gasoline
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019How does online price disclosure affect competition when both consumers and firms can use the disclosed information? This paper addresses this question exploiting the sequential implementation of an online price-disclosure policy in the Chilean retail ...
Fernando Luco
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Underbidding for Oil and Gas Tracts
The American Economic ReviewCommon values auction models, where bidder decisions depend on noisy signals of common values, provide predictions about Bayesian Nash equilibrium (BNE) outcomes. In settings where these common values can be estimated, these predictions can be tested. We
Julien Martin +2 more
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Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil
The American Economic ReviewMultinationals in the extractive sectors of weak states face resource theft by armed groups. Criminality is often abetted by state corruption, even though firms are willing to pay for protection.
J. Rexer
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The Inner Workings of a Hub-and-Spoke Cartel in the Automotive Fuel Industry
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsWe study the inner workings of a hub-and-spoke cartel in the Brazilian automotive fuel industry. Based on court documents and detailed price and sales data, we discuss how gas station owners (spokes) operating inside the federal capital received help ...
Daniel Chaves, Marco Duarte
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Taxes and US Oil Production: Evidence from California and the Windfall Profit Tax
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018The recent boom in US oil production has prompted debates on levying new taxes on oil. This paper uses new well-level production data and price variation from federal oil taxes and price controls to assess how taxes affected production.
Nirupama L. Rao
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Prix du carbone, stratégies d'entreprises et transformation énergétique
, 2020The hydrocarbon energy sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the economy. Private companies in this sector have also played a key role in shaping climate policies, notably by promoting carbon pricing in their practices and ...
Anna Creti, R. Olivier
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The American Economic Review
The average effect of deregulatory policies on fuel prices at coal-fired power plants is strongly influenced by plants that were initially paying the highest prices for fuel.
Steve Cicala
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The average effect of deregulatory policies on fuel prices at coal-fired power plants is strongly influenced by plants that were initially paying the highest prices for fuel.
Steve Cicala
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