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Wie privatisieren und wer privatisiert? Zur Erklärung der Wahl der Privatisierungsmethode und -organisation

Siegmund, Uwe - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or … for reasons of ideological preferences. The method of privatization (auction, bargaining, giveaway) is the one that is …

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Are there nationalization-privatization cycles? A theoretical survey and first empirical evidence

Siegmund, Uwe - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

This paper deals with fluctuations over time in the extent of the state-owned firm sector? nationalization-privatization …

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The New Institutional Economics of Antitrust and Regulation

Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

Hybrid governance structures between markets and hierarchies in many industries, e.g., in energy and telecommunications, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New Institutional Economics (NIE) for analyzing the...

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Labour market returns to higher education in Vietnam

Doan, Tinh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper employs the Ordinary Least Squares, Instrumental Variables and Treatment Effect models to a new dataset from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) to estimate return to the four-year university education in 2008. Our estimates reveal that the return to university...

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Government Activity and Economic Growth – One Size Fits All?

Beckmann, Joscha; Endrich, Marek; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This study investigates the role of government activity in economic growth, arguing that economic systems are important and that, therefore, one size of government does not fit all countries. Taking a panel of 111 countries over the years from 1971 to 2010, we consider clusters of economic...

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Welfare against growth gains in post-transition countries: What are the consequences for stability?

Lissowska, Maria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper discusses the underpinnings of the financial crisis of the last decade. It explores the endogenous reasons of this crisis, and in particular a possible link between delayed and unequal growth of household incomes in post-transition countries on one hand and the instability of their...

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Varieties of Capitalism, Governance and Government Spending – A Cross-Section Analysis

Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer; Zenker, Juliane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

We argue that the literature on government size suffers from neglecting the role of governance both as a driving and a limiting factor for government spending. Cross-country evidence for a sample of 126 developed and developing countries averaging data for the period 2003-07 reveals that better...

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Large-Scale Transition of Economic Systems – Do CEECs Converge Towards Western Prototypes?

Ahlborn, Markus; Ahrens, Joachim; Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

In order to identify convergence patterns among the group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) we analyze clusters of traditional OECD countries, i.e. EU-15 plus Norway and Switzerland, Anglo-Saxon non-EU countries plus Japan, and CEECs based on macro data on government regulation...

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Coordination in the El Farol Bar problem: The role of social preferences and social networks

Chen, Shu-Heng; Gostoli, Umberto - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In this paper, the authors continue the pursuit of the self-coordination mechanism as studied in the El Farol Bar problem. However, in addition to efficiency (the optimal use of the public facility), they are also interested in the distribution of the public resources among all agents. Hence,...

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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage

Khalilian, Setareh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...

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