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Full-Text Articles in Industrial Organization
Aacsb Accreditation And Student Demand, Bryan Mccannon, Katherine Starr, Marisa Cameron
Aacsb Accreditation And Student Demand, Bryan Mccannon, Katherine Starr, Marisa Cameron
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
We ask whether AACSB accreditation has a meaningful impact on university admissions. To do this, we explore 16 U.S. institutions which first achieved this certification recently. We, first, document a modest, but nonzero, impact on university-wide undergraduate applications, without any changes in first-year enrollment, price, or quality of the incoming student body. Restricting attention to business schools, while initial evidence suggests that the accreditation is associated with a decrease in enrollments, we show that this is complicated by non-parallel trends prior to accreditation. Compared to their comparison institutions, universities who seek out accreditation were experiencing flatter business enrollments. Correcting for …
The U.S. Coal Industry: Market Structure & Implications, Sara Elizabeth Guffey
The U.S. Coal Industry: Market Structure & Implications, Sara Elizabeth Guffey
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
The U.S. coal mining industry was once a booming industry which created and defined communities, particularly in Appalachia. The industry has, however, transformed significantly in the last couple of decades with the passage of environmental policies, with competition from the Shale Revolution, from changes in company ownership, and from mine safety regulation. Overall, the coal industry during this time has experienced a massive decline in production and employment. This dissertation is composed of three papers that investigate these mechanisms and their role in understanding market structure, coal transactions and prices, and mine safety outcomes. Motivated by the shutdowns of U.S. …
Natural Gas Investment In West Virginia, 2010-2016, Eric Bowen
Natural Gas Investment In West Virginia, 2010-2016, Eric Bowen
Bureau of Business & Economic Research
West Virginia’s natural gas boom began in 2010 as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques began to be applied to the state’s shale formations. Since then, West Virginia has become the nation’s ninth-largest natural gas producer in 2017, with gross withdrawals of more than 1.6 trillion cubic feet. Since the gas boom started, the natural gas industry has made considerable investments in the state to pay for well drilling, mineral royalties, and pipeline infrastructure, among other investment costs. In this report, we estimate these investments in two key areas: upstream costs and midstream infrastructure.
Coal Production In West Virginia, Brian Lego, John Deskins
Coal Production In West Virginia, Brian Lego, John Deskins
Bureau of Business & Economic Research
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Unconventional Natural Gas Industry Value Chain And Representative Companies, Ednilson Bernardes
Unconventional Natural Gas Industry Value Chain And Representative Companies, Ednilson Bernardes
Bureau of Business & Economic Research
This report defines a framework for the unconventional natural gas value chain and identifies representative companies in each stage, as per definition of the value chain adopted for the study. The main focus of the report is on major companies in the up and midstream stages of the value chain. However, the report presents major companies in stages further downstream covered by the study. The reason for the focus on up and midstream stages is two‐fold. First, given the current level of development of the unconventional natural gas value chain in the state, those are the stages where most opportunities …