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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden
Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012
Agency in Sweden during 2008 to 2010, in which over 4,000 participants were randomly offered private and public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321163
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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - 2012
In many countries welfare services that traditionally have been provided by the public sector are being contracted out to private providers. But are private contractors better at providing these services? We use a randomized experiment to empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321375
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Uncertain demand, consumer loss aversion, and flat-rate tariffs
Herweg, Fabian; Mierendorff, Konrad - 2011
We consider a model of firm pricing and consumer choice, where consumers are loss averse and uncertain about their future demand. Possibly, consumers in our model prefer a flat rate to a measured tariff, even though this choice does not minimize their expected billing amount - a behavior in line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316924
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Micro foundations of price-setting behaviour: Evidence from Canadian firms
De Munnik, Daniel; Xu, Kuan - 2007
inflation low and stable. The authors use the Bank of Canada's 200203 price-setting survey data to investigate Canadian firms …' price-setting behaviour; they also analyze the micro foundations for the firms' pricing behaviour using count data and …-dependent price-setters, operate in the trade sector, or have large variable costs or more direct competitors. There are various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279927
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Markups in Canada: Have they changed and why?
Leung, Danny - 2008
Many empirical studies have examined the cyclical nature of the markup ratio. Until recently, few have attempted to ascertain the changes in the markup over a longer time horizon. These changes are of no less interest in view of the posited effects of increasing import competition and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279932
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Income differences and prices of tradables
Simonovska, Ina - 2010
This paper presents novel evidence of price discrimination, using prices of identical goods in 28 countries. I explain … variable mark-ups account for 80% of the positive price-income relationship across 123 countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282116
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The effects of a refinery on property values: The case of Sweden
Winstrand, Jakob - 2009
coast, on house values in the surrounding area. To carry out the analysis a spatial hedonic house price model was applied to … price elasticity with respect to distance in the direction the prevailing wind blows is 0.071 and 0.162 in the opposite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321460
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Privatisation and renationalisation: What went wrong in Bolivia's water sector?
Hailu, Degol; Osório, Rafael Guerreiro; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009
This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293309
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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures
Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004
The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why privatization is useful as well as profitable for an...
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries: A preliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
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