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Privatization and market development : global movements in public policy ideas
Hodge, Graeme A. (contributor) - 2006
This accessible book aims to inform readers interested in assessing privatization and market development concepts on a … international team of contributors, the book traces how privatization concepts have grown in application, and how they have spread … global regulation of markets / George Gilligan -- Conclusions : spreading the privatization family business / Graeme Hodge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851902
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Advancing public goods
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006
The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850891
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Modelling the composition of government expenditure
Creedy, John - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851401
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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good
Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998
The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851479
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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice
Reifschneider, Alexandra Petermann - 2006
The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851526
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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473918
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Corporate governance, market structure and innovation
Calderini, Mario (contributor);  … - 2003
pt. 1. Market structure, corporate governance and innovation -- pt. 2. Privatization, liberalization and R&D activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851058
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Free to fail : creative destruction revisited
Mandele, Hugh C. van der - 2013
1. Introduction -- 2. Key concepts -- 3. The historic debate -- 4. Profit maximization is only part of the answer -- 5. Organizational mortality and its fruits -- 6. Causes of organizational failure -- 7. Uncontrollability -- 8. Empirical evidence -- 9. The soft constraint syndrome -- 10. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420127
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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record
Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001
The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851212