Karen Clay, Werner Troesken, Sara Ellison, Caroline Fohlin, Rick Geddes, Margaret Levenstein, ...
Using data from the turn-of-the-century whiskey industry, we conduct tests of the NEIO methodology similar to those conducted by Genesove and Mullin [1998]. Like Genesove and Mullin, we find that the...
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., Levenstein, Margaret, Sokoloff, Kenneth L.
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the...
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., Levenstein, Margaret, Sokoloff, Kenneth L.
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the...
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., Levenstein, Margaret, Sokoloff, Kenneth L.
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the...
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., Levenstein, Margaret, Sokoloff, Kenneth L.
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the...
Margaret Levenstein, Valerie Suslow, Lynda Oswald
The U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have all recently voiced concern about international price- fixing cartels. The...
Financing Invention During the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, Kenneth L. Sokoloff
For those who think of Cleveland as a decaying rustbelt city, it may seem difficult to believe that this northern Ohio port was once a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today....
Lynda Oswald, Valerie Suslow, Margaret Levenstein, Manuel Pastor
The U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have all recently voiced concern about international price-fixing cartels. The...
Vertical Restraints in the Bromine Cartel: The Role of Distributors in Facilitating Collusion
From 1885 to 1902 manufacturers and distributors in the American bromine industry cooperated to increase prices and profits. Like many sectors of the American economy at the time, the bromine...
Price Wars and the Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre-World War I Bromine Industry
Bromine producers colluded to raise prices and profits during most of the period between 1885 and 1914. Collusion was punctuated by price wars in which prices fell sharply. The characteristics of...
This collection of eight-and-a-half essays makes an important contribution to both the theory and practice of business history. Six essays employ the new institutional economics and evolutionary...
Mobilizing Venture Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920
Naomi Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, Kenneth Sokoloff
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the...
Mobilizing Venture Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920
Naomi Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, Kenneth Sokoloff
During the Second Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Midwestern cities were important centers of innovation. Cleveland, the focus of this study, led in the...
Margaret Levenstein, Valerie Suslow, Lynda Oswald
We examine the possible effects of private international cartels on developing countries by looking in detail at three recent cartel cases, as well as at a broader cross-section of 42 recently...
Levenstein, Margaret, Suslow, Valerie Y., Oswald, Lynda J.
International Development, International Relations/Trade,
This article uses the records of the Dow Chemical Company to analyze the role of distributors in facilitating collusion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It compares collusion in...