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Das (Wasted) Kapital : Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
Dollar, David - 2007
Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China with firm-level accounting information for 2002-2004, this paper examines the presence of systematic distortions in capital allocation that result in uneven marginal returns to...
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The Effects of Hospital Ownership on Medical Productivity
Kessler, Daniel - 2001
To develop new evidence on the effects of hospital ownership and other aspects of hospital market composition on health care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of nonrural elderly Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470181
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Who Owns the Media?
Djankov, Simeon - 2001
We examine the patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world. We find that almost universally the largest media firms are owned by the government or by private families. Government ownership is more pervasive in broadcasting than in the printed media. Government ownership of the...
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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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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 …
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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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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...
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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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