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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …

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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …

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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed corporations and find...

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003

Earle, John; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...

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The Different Extent of Privatisation Proceeds in EU Countries: A Preliminary Explanation Using a Public Choice Approach

Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of economic efficiency. Starting out from different...

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Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival: The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro

Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We provide the first test of the Hoff and Stiglitz (2004) model predicting whether and under what conditions mass privatizations are accompanied by asset stripping. In addition to directly testing the theory, we also tackle an important policy-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient...

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