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Reluctant Entrepreneurs : Evidence from China's SOE Reform
Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan; Zhang, Yapei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of firm registration and performance data, we document that the massive SOE downsizing in the late 1990s significantly improved the quality of entrepreneur- ship. Compared with...
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Can a Tiger Change Its Stripes? Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State
Harrison, Ann - 2019
there are clear improvements in performance post-privatization. The tiger can change its stripes; however, the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479431
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Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More Than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2019
We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...
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Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy : Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales
Calomiris, Charles - 2008
contrast to the "privatization premium" found in earlier work, we find a negative effect of government ownership on returns at … that personal ties can substitute for the benefits of government ownership. The "privatization discount" is higher for … relatively high welfare payments to employees, which presumably would fall with privatization, benefit disproportionately from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464873
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Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small : The Transformation of the State Sector in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2015
Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457662
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation : Evidence from China
Fang, Lily - 2016
Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with...
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Governance, regulation, and privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region : [NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 12 ; papers presented at the NBER's East Asia Seminar on Economi...
Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Krueger, Anne O. (contributor) - 2004
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016
among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could …
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"Public Sector Pension Governance and Performance"
Mitchell, Olivia S. - 1994
This paper investigates the determinants of public sector pension plan investment and funding behavior. Its goal is to draw lessons which may be used to improve the design and governance of public pensions. Plan performance is related to characteristics of the pension systems' governance...
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Public Sector Growth and Labor Market Flexibility : The United States vs. The United Kingdom
Blank, Rebecca M. - 1993
This paper investigates whether a larger public sector limits labor market adjustment, using data from the United States and the United Kingdom, two countries with quite different public/private employment trends. The results indicate that the two countries have a similar mix of occupations and...
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