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Employee Ownership, Board Representation, and Corporate Financial Policies

Ginglinger, Edith; Megginson, William; Waxin, Timothee - HAL - 2011

French law mandates that employees of publicly listed companies can elect two types of directors to represent employees. Privatized companies must reserve board seats for directors elected by employees by right of employment, while employee-shareholders can elect a director whenever they hold at...

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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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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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Liberalization in the Water Sector : Three Leading Models.

Ménard, Claude; Aleksandra, Peeroo - HAL - 2011

Our chapter is organized as follows. Section I comes back to the characteristics of the water sector. It describes some key features that may explain the slow pace of reform and that may also help better understanding characteristics and limits of that process. Then, a historical and global...

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Social Capital as an Engine of Growth: Multisectoral Modelling and Implications

Bofota, Youyou Baende; Boucekkine, Raouf; Bala, Alain Pholo - HAL - 2012

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...

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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared...

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Financial integration and financial development in transition economies : what happens during financial crises ?

Brezigar-Masten, Arjana; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Masten, Igor - HAL - 2010

This papers provides an empirical analysis of the role of financial development and financial integration in the growth dynamics of transition countries. We focus on the role of financial integration in determining the impact of financial development on growth, distinguishing "normal times" from...

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