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Social Security Reform and Population Ageing in a Two-Sector Growth Model

van Groezen, Bas; Meijdam, Lex; Verbon, H.A.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

This paper analyses the effects of reducing unfunded social security and population ageing on economic growth and welfare, both for a small open economy and for a closed economy.The economy consists of a service sector and a commodity sector.Productivity growth only occurs in the latter sector...

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Politiques énergétiques et accès aux services urbains en réseau à Istanbul : une ambition métropolitaine au détriment de l'intérêt général

Arik, Elvan - HAL - 2011

À partir de la thématique énergétique à Istanbul, ce mémoire apporte des éléments de réponse à la double interrogation suivante : comment les structures de gouvernance locale se sont-elles adaptées aux injonctions du développement urbain durable ? ; dans une métropole déjà...

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How to Make the Economy "Embedded" in Turkey? One question, Two Contradictory Answers

Ozatalay, Cem - HAL - 2011

interests in the neo-liberal institution-building process in Turkey and privatization cases as one of the main components of the … neo-liberalization process represents its primary focus. First, it will be outlined how the privatization program was … privatization deals after the 2000's and its effects, it will be shown (1) how the import-substitution periods' contending actors …

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Learning from the economics of networks to enhance poverty alleviation in African cotton zones

Fok, Michel - HAL - 2008

Cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were run by monopolistic para-statal organisms for a long time. They embarked upon a restructuring/liberalisation process as of the mid-1980s but the outcomes were mitigated at best. As these sectors resemble service distribution networks...

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Legitimacy strategies in the annual reports - what turn to social responsibility in post-privatization context

Lupu, Ioana; Sandu, Raluca - HAL - 2010

company through the corporate annual reports. The case study is based on the content analysis of three consecutive post-privatization …

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General-Equilibrium Effects of Privatisation : The Missing Piece in Social Security Reform

van Groezen, Bas; Meijdam, Lex; Verbon, H.A.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

This paper analyses the effects of reducing unfunded social security in a closed economy that consists of a service sector and a commodity sector.It is shown that if old agents mainly demand labour intensive services, a modest decrease of the pay-as-you-go pension scheme still raises long-run...

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Optimal Privatization Using Qualifying Auctions

boone, jan; Goeree, J.K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This paper explores the use of auctions for privatizing public assets.In our model, a single "insider" bidder (e.g. incumbent management of a government-owned firm) possesses information about the asset's risky value.In addition, bidders are privately informed about their costs of exploiting the...

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Privatization, public investment and capital income taxation

Huizinga, Harry P.; Nielsen, S.B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

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Noise Trader Risk and the Political Economy of Privatization

Grant, S.; Quiggin, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

.Extension of the model to allow for privatization of publicly-owned assets yields insights into the positive political economy of … privatization and into the normative question of how policies should be evaluated in the presence of mistaken beliefs. …

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Efficiency inducing taxation for polluting oligopolists: the irrelevance of privatization

Claude, Denis; Tidball, Mabel - HAL - 2010

This paper studies the optimal environmental policy in a mixed market when pollution accumulates over time. Specifically, we assume quantity competition between several private firms and one partially privatized firm. The optimal emission tax is shown to be independent of the weight the...

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