U.S. Steel Industry Database

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• Steel Data and Documentation
• Other U.S. Steel Websites
• Recent Working Papers on the Steel Industry
• Researchers with Recent Work on the Steel Industry
• Trade Data and Policy Links

U.S. Steel Data and Documentation

The following are links to data and documentation on the U.S. steel industry from 1980 through 1999, collected by the author of this page, Bruce Blonigen (University of Oregon), Benjamin Liebman (St. Joseph's University) and Wes Wilson (University of Oregon). This work is generously supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant number 27-3383-00-0-79-636) and the data are free to anyone and downloadable from this page.

U.S. Monthly Aggregate Steel Data, 1980-1999

• Description
• Data (Excel spreadsheet)
• Variable Definitions and Sources (Excel spreadsheet)

U.S. Annual Steel Product Panel Data, 1980-1999

• Description
• Data (Excel spreadsheet)
• Variable Definitions and Sources (Excel spreadsheet)

Other U.S. Steel Websites

• American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
• Steel-Related Trade Associations Links Page
• Technology and Research Links Page
• Government and Policy Links Page
• Other Useful Links
• International Iron and Steel Institute
• Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST)
• Industry Data Page
• News Page - get the latest steel stories free

Recent Working Papers on the Steel Industry

NBER Working Papers (you can download these papers if your institution has a subscription)

• NBER Paper 13671: "Trade Policy and Market Power: The Case of the US Steel Industry" by Bruce A. Blonigen, Benjamin H. Liebman, and Wesley W. Wilson, December 2007.
• NBER Paper 11798: "Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity" by Bruce A. Blonigen and Wesley W. Wilson, November 2005.
• NBER Technical Paper 0278: "Econometric Methods for Endogenously Sampled Time Series: The Case of Commodity Price Speculation in the Steel Market" by George Hall and John Rust, August 2002.
• NBER Paper 8306: "Opportunity Counts: Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives" by Brent Boning, Casey Ichniowski, and Kathryn Shaw, May 2001.
• NBER Paper 7640: "Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?" by Douglas A. Irwin, April 2000.
• NBER Paper 7638: "How Did the United States Become a Net Exporter of Manufactured Goods?" by Douglas A. Irwin, April 2000.
• NBER Paper 7378: "Antidumping Investigations and the Pass Through of Exchange Rates and Antidumping Duties" by Bruce A. Blonigen and Stephen E. Haynes, October 1999.
• NBER Paper 6835: "Did Late Nineteenth Century Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry" by Douglas A. Irwin, December 1998.

Other Recent Downloadable Working Papers

• "Did US Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel Producers?" by Hylke Vandenbussche and Ziga Zarnic, August 2006.
• "How Different are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from US Trade Policies Toward Steel" by Chad Bown, July 2004.
• "Is Talk Cheap? Buying Congressional Testimony with Campaign Contributions" by Ryan Gibbs, Omer Gokcekus, and Edward Tower, April 2003.
• "'Steeling' House Votes at Low Prices for the Steel Import Quota Bill of 1999" by Robert C. Fisher, Omer Gokcekus, and Edward Tower, July 2002.

Researchers with Recent Work on the Steel Industry

• Bruce Blonigen (University of Oregon and NBER)
• Chad Bown (World Bank)
• Robert Crandall (Brookings Institution)
• Robert Feinberg (American University)
• Omer Gokcekus (Seton Hall University)
• Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College)
• Benjamin Liebman (St. Joseph's University)
• Michael Moore (George Washington University)
• Kara Reynolds (American University)
• Thomas Prusa (Rutgers University and NBER)
• Edward Tower (Duke University)
• Wesley Wilson (University of Oregon)

Trade Data and Policy Links

• The Center for International Data at UC-Davis - Directed by Robert Feenstra, this link provides detailed trade and tariff data for the U.S., as well as Asian economic data.
• PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service - Designed by Werner Antweiler at the University of British Columbia.
• International Trade Data - Originally collected by Jon Haveman and now maintained by Raymond Robertson at Macalester College.

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