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The State of Competition in the Coal Industry

EMD-78-22 Published: Dec 30, 1977. Publicly Released: Dec 30, 1977.
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A major part of United States energy policy is the maintenance of competition in the energy sector of the economy. Monopoly power is generally presumed to exist when industrial organization has a four-firm concentration ratio of 50 percent or more. Estimates of concentration ratios in American manufacturing as a whole range from 38 percent to 40 percent.

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