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In this paper we study how privatization and deregulation of production of intermediate goods influence capital … are mostly due to increased competition on the deregulated market and that the privatization of state enterprises is not …
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considerations. They argue that important policy goals like universal service will not be achieved by competition. However, an … my article, I describe a new concept of public-private competition, according to which governments use state owned … possible to extend public-private competition from urban to rural areas, where markets are too small to sustain more than one …
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This paper addresses the problem of hub airport privatization, similar to the studies by Matsumura and Matsushima (2012 … equilibrium outcome. Furthermore, depending on the size of the airline network and the degree of airline competition, asymmetric …
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California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation … experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …
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accelerate broadband deployment speed and adoption in the ICT sector to deliver social and economic impact. The theory of change … put forward in this study establishes that privatization of incumbent telecommunications operators supports the … introduction of competition and improved quality of regulations, which together condition the speed of technology migration, the …
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Starting from an industry where production is provided by a public monopolist, we look at the effects on the consumers' surplus of a sequence of reforms in network industry. Using a simple comparative statics framework, we find indifference conditions in consumers' surplus between respectively...
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market demand, port competition factors in port privatization. …The authors examine a mixed duopoly market with Cournot or Bertrand competition between a purely private port (port 1 … analytically derive the welfare effect of privatization of port 2 and determine the optimal degree of privatization. Under Cournot …
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liberalization and their privatization which can be complete or partial such that upstream production is still run by an SOE. We show … in most cases even if a holdup problem exists. For any vertically separated structure we find that privatization through … multi-product firms welfare dominates privatization through single-product firms. -- Privatization ; vertical integration …
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determining the success or failure of policies of liberalisation and privatization, illustrates the need for a concise theoretical …
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This paper studies the effect of soft-budget constraints in a pure adverse selection model of monopoly regulation. We consider a government maximizing total surplus but incurring some cost of public funds à la Laffont Tirole (1993). We propose a regulatory set-up in which firms are free to...
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