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Market Provision of Public Goods : The Case of Broadcasting

Anderson, Simon P. - 2000

This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...

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Adjudication as a Private Good

Landes, William M. - 1978

This paper examines the question whether adjudication can be viewed as a private good, i.e., one whose optimal level will be generated in a free market. Part I focuses on private courts, noting their limitations as institutions for dispute resolution and rule creation but also stressing the...

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Restructuring

Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994

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Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition

Friebel, Guido - 2007

We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...

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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later

Godoy, Sergio - 2006

the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …

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The Razor's Edge : Distortions and Incremental Reform in the People's Republic of China

Young, Alwyn - 2000

In a partially reformed economy, distortions beget distortions. Segments of the economy which are freed from centralized control respond to the rent seeking opportunities implicit in the remaining distortions of the economy. The battle to capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the...

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Privatization in East European Transformation

Fischer, Stanley - 1991

Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Epple, Dennis - 2000

Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...

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Educational Production

Lazear, Edward P. - 1999

The literature on class size yields a number of findings. First, class size effects are difficult to find except when using data where class size variations are truly exogenous. Second, Catholic schools have large classes and better performance. Third, to the extent that class size matters, it...

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