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Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies … graph which is then used to analyze policy rules, subsidies and effective interaction between the state and the private …
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This paper (i) provides evidence on the procyclical investment behavior of major institutional investors during the … implications of procyclical behavior; and (iv) proposes a framework for sound investment practices for long-term investors. Such … procyclical investment behavior is understandable and may be considered rational from an individual institution’s perspective …
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investment for Kuwait under uncertainty. The results show that in the face of high oil income volatility and the expected decline … is room to increase investment spending, which should contribute to the growth of the tradable sector, as the projected … investment rate is lower than the optimal investment rate of 20 percent of government income. …
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between privatization and measures of fiscal and macroeconomic performance. One of the main findings is that privatization proceeds transferred to the budget tend to be saved. Specifically, they are largely used to reduce domestic financing,...
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Although a centerpiece of the reform process in Central and Eastern Europe, large-scale privatization cannot be undertaken all at once and policymakers inevitably face the choice of privatizing some sectors before others. This paper analyzes the allocative efficiency implications of alternate...
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better performance than ownership concentrated by the domestic owners. Ownership by Ukrainian investment funds and holding …
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This paper provides an overview of the possible linkages between state-owned banks, privatization, and banking sector crises. Data on privatizations in over 65 countries is used together with data from the banking crisis literature to consider the relationship between state-owned banks and...
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This Selected Issues paper for Romania reports that the practice of nonpayment and arrears accumulation has been widespread in Romania. Managers of enterprises that remain in the pipeline for privatization for long periods of time have little incentive to reduce arrears. The state contributed to...
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This paper reviews developments in corporate performance in the FYR Macedonia during the 1990s. The paper finds substantial differences in performance between surviving old firms and nimbler new ones. The paper reviews factors that facilitated restructuring among surviving firms, and concludes...
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