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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 …

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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...

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A study of price evolution in online toy market

Yang, Zhenlin; Gan, Lydia; Tang, Fang-Fang - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-28, pp. 1-29

We study and contrast pricing and price evolution of online only (Dotcom) and online branch of multi-channel retailers … their shipping costs that eventually drive the overall average price of Dotcoms higher than that of OBMCRs. Price … dispersions of both types of retailers are persistent. The price dispersion of OBMCRs is higher than that of Dotcoms at the …

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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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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...

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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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Ownership and Production Costs - Choosing Between Public Production and Contracting Out

Ohlsson, Henry - 1998

Many comparisons of the performance of public and private producers use a public/private ownership dummy variable to capture cost differences in cross section data. This is appropriate if the producer choice is random. The dummy variable model is, however, logically inconsistent if the producer...

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