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Introduction / Luc Bernier, Massimo Florio and Philippe Bance -- The scope of the phenomenon -- Perspectives on history and geography -- Approaches to the study of state-owned enterprises -- Financial dimensions of public ownership -- Issues about governance -- The activities and performance of...
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Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...
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This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our … models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …
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We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …
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In recent decades, market-opening policies in local public transport (LPT) have impacted most European countries. However, we can observe a high degree of variability in possible LPT arrangements, from public monopolies to open markets. This work addresses the following research question: How...
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