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privatization on airport charges in a panel data setting where fixed effects can be employed to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Our …
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This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization … intermediate suppliers and investors have also clearly benefited during the short privatization duration. However the paper also …
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examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 …-15 percent following the shift to privatization. In light of the massive change in financial costs associated with childbearing … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …
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This paper interprets the existing evidence on enterprise restructuring in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic …
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This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock … market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a … to regulatory and private property rights. We present evidence suggesting that progress in privatization is correlated …
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autocracy and weak governance institutions there is no significant difference in support for revising privatization between high … level of support for revising privatization between the high and low skilled grows dramatically. This finding contributes to …
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, and are initially not fully credible. We argue that sustained privatization and liberalization programmes represent a … major test of political commitment to safer private property rights. We investigate whether successful privatization has a … privatization gradually leads to increased confidence. Moreover, increased confidence has a strong effect on local market …
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This paper investigates the role of structural reforms –privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization– as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
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Using data from a large enterprise-level panel designed to address this issue, we account for enterprise performance in Russia. We link performance to four aspects of the economic environment outlined in the literature: enterprise ownership; corporate governance; market structures and competition;...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how energy policy should respond to the changes in the organisation of energy sector associated with privatisation. The paper begins with a brief review of how energy policy was perceived before the 1973 oil shock, and the lessons learned from...
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