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This Paper uses a survey of 3,300 firms in 25 transition countries to shed light on the factors that influence restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three-year period. We begin by surveying what a decade of...
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Two decades after the end of central planning, we investigate the extent to which the advantages bequeathed by planning in terms of high investment in physical infrastructure and human capital compensated for the costs in allocative inefficiency and weak incentives for innovation. We assemble...
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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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how deregulation affects corporate structure. In the benchmark case where the government maximizes privatization proceeds …
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The transition in East Germany has been characterized by an extremely rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises …-unification level. This paper argues that the government imposed an inconsistent policy toward employment on the privatization agency …, the Treuhand. Although required to take account of the shadow price of labour in the privatization negotiations (where …
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This paper begins from the twin observation that on the one hand, privatization which leaves control in the hands of … restructuring even in the absence of a clear prospect of privatization. It situates enterprise restructuring at the heart of the …
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We discuss the relative merits of public and private ownership. Our starting point is the analysis of Hart, Schleifer and Vishny (HSV), who apply an incomplete contract framework to study the difference between private and public ownership. Our analysis departs from HSV’s model in two aspects....
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privatized firms there is no positive relationship between firms’ ability to pay and wage increases. Privatization appears …
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