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Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...
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We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade … bureaucracy are the most likely reasons behind our findings. -- state ownership ; control ; corporate performance ; privatization …
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larger reform package of economic liberalisation in formerly overregulated economies, (b) as a reaction to an increasing …
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This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After … defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform … industry-specific SOE reform trends as well as the latest reform developments. Until today, a stable, successful, longterm …
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within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …
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distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path …
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This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …
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Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these arguments influence voters opinions. We analyze two popular referenda in which some 400,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the...
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