Search Results - subject:"Privatization"

Milton Friedman's Voucher Proposal and the Privatization of American Education

Ryan Ph.D., Patrick Spaulding - 2023

This essay analyzes the inconsistencies in Milton Friedman's proposal for a market-based public education system through school vouchers. The author argues that voucher policy has been executed inefficiently and has become a political tool for the religious right, tied to issues of race, class,...

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Privatization of Soes and its Innovation Performance : A Reexamination

Sun, Zhen; Wu, Peizhen - 2023

privatization on the innovation of former SOEs. Our findings reveal a hitherto unreported landscape of innovation performance of … firms. Importantly, we find that privatization of SOEs overall leads to a decrease in innovation performance at the firm … level. The adverse effects of privatization are more evident for firms with high financial constraints and firms in the …

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Financial Reporting Around Private Firms’ Equity Offerings

Kang, Yiran - 2023

This paper investigates how U.S. private firms communicate with equity investors around private capital raising. Using multiple research methods, including survey, interview, and archival analysis, I provide systematic evidence on private firms’ public and private disclosure practices. I find...

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Privatization and Long-Term Decisions : Evidence from Pc Holdings of Vietnamese Companies

Vu, Duc Kien; Uchida, Konari - 2023

data on Vietnamese companies from 2001 to 2011, we find that privatization restrains personal computer (PC) holdings … interest burden after privatization, while PC holdings are positively related to subsequent ROA, irrespective of whether the … privatized. Our data also show evidence that PC holdings become less sensitive to performance after privatization …

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Opportunistic Privatization

Uberti, Luca Jacopo; Ivanovic, Vladan; Imami, Drini - 2023

We argue that, in the run-up to elections, self-interested politicians use privatization opportunistically to buy votes …, politicians have a strict preference for privatization over state ownership in the run-up to elections. We test these predictions …-2019). We report robust conditional correlations consistent with our theory. Privatization sales and revenues increase …

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Free-Ridership in Subsidies for Company- and Private Electric Vehicles

Burra, Lavan T.; Sommer, Stephan; Vance, Colin - 2023

Consumer subsidies are commonly employed to incentivize the purchase of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), but free-ridership potentially undermines their effectiveness. The present study investigates BEV subsidies in Germany, distinguishing their effect between company- and private cars. Drawing...

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Calculating Private and Social Returns to COVID-19 Vaccine Innovation

Fink, Carsten - 2023

What is the return to COVID-19 vaccine innovation? This paper seeks to quantify both private and social returns, using available data on commercialized vaccines and certain assumptions about the pandemic’s epidemiological path as well as the economic costs of containment measures. The...

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Entrepreneurial vibrancy, financing constraints and heterogeneous innovations : evidence from Chinese private enterprises

Wang, Qiong; Yang, Ru; Zhuang, Deling; Wang, Chengyuan; … - In: Technology analysis & strategic management 35 (2023) 8, pp. 1038-1051

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Committing to grow : privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023

investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the …

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Effects of Patent Privateering on Settlements and R&D in Markets with Product Differentiation

Klapper, Felix; Siemering, Christian - 2023

We investigate patent litigation, settlements and R&D incentives on a market where two firms develop technologies of differentiated products. Firms may sell IP rights to a Patent Assertion Entity (PAE) that acts as intermediary for patent monetization. We find that the effects of this so-called...

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