Deterrent effects of antitrust enforcement [United States]
Subtitle: the ready-mix contrete industry, 1970-1980
By: principal investigators, Michael K. Block and Fredrick C. Nold
Series: ICPSR -- 9040; ICPSR (Series) -- 9040
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Ready mixed concrete industry; Finance; Antitrust law
Description: These data were collected to explore the relationship between profit levels in the concrete industry and the antitrust enforcement activities undertaken by the United States Department of Justice in nineteen cities over an eleven-year period. The data collection is composed mainly of published aggregate data on ready-mix concrete costs and prices. Profits and estimates of collusive markups in this industry can be calculated and related to antitrust enforcement efforts. Variables include measures of wages and materials costs, prices of concrete products, number of building permits issued, gasoline prices, the consumer price index, number of laborers employed, unemployment rates, measures of change in the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division budget, change in number of DOJ permanent enforcement personnel, and number of antitrust criminal actions initiated by DOJ against ready-mix concrete users, producers of related products, producers of substitutes for ready-mix products, and ready-mix producers.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1970-1980. Data collected: 1980-1981.

(1) Engineering news records (2) Bureau of Labor Statistics' Industry wage survey, (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employment and earnigns, (4) Bureau of Labor Statistics' Geographic profiles of employment and unemployment, (5) Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer energy prices, (6) Oil and gas journal, (7) Bureau of Census' Housing units authorized by building permits and public contracts, and (8) Statistical abstract of the United States.

Aggregate data.

United States.

National Institute of Justice. 80-IJ-CX-0105.

LRECL data format. The data collection is a pooled time-series of cross-sections: data are presented for the years 1970-1980, although data for 1969 are available for a limited number of variables. The three files supply data for varying units of time (months, quarter, years).

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Month, City-Month Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 2,736 ; variable count: 32 ; LRECL: 166 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Quarter, City-Quarter data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 836 ; variable count: 37 ; LRECL: 158 ; records per case: 1.

Part number: 3 ; part name: Year, City-Year Data ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 228 ; variable count: 35 ; LRECL: 153 ; records per case: 1.

The sample consists of 19 representative cities in the United States.

Clabault, J.M., and M.K. Block. Sherman act indictments, 1955-1980. New York: Federal Legal Publications, 1981.

Block, M.K., F.C. Nold, and J.G. Sidak. "The Deterrent Effect of Antitrust Enforcement." Journal of political economy 89 (1981), 429-445.