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To what extent do infrastructure and financial sectors reforms interplay? Evidence from panel data on the power sector in developing countries

Ba, Lika; Gasmi, Farid - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011

of privatization programs in the generation and distribution segments, on some of this sector’s performance outcomes, and …

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A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011

In this paper, we discuss the choice for build-operate-and-transfer (BOT) concessions when governments and rm managers do not share the same information regarding the operation characteristics of a facility. We show that larger shadow costs of public funds and larger information asymmetries...

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"Mixed oligopoly in education"

Cremer, Helmuth; Maldonado, Dario - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the quality of education depends on "peer group"effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second stage they fix their tuition fees. We examine how...

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Empirical Evidence on Satisfaction with Privatization in Latin America: Welfare Effects and Beliefs

Bonnet, Céline; Dubois, Pierre; Martimort, David; … - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

Since the 1980s, privatization of formerly state-owned firms has been extensively implemented by governments across … institutional aspects as well as data on privatization. Dissatisfaction appears to respond to absolute and relative welfare effects …

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Is the level of financial sector development a key determinant of private investment in the power sector?

Gasmi, Farid; Lika, Ba; Noumba Um, Paul - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2010

TThis paper seeks to assess the extent to which a country’s overall level of development and that of its financial sector, in particular, are factors that attract private capital into infrastructure projects. The authors investigate these effects in a 1990–2007 dataset on the power sector in...

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Cooperative decision-making for the provision of a locally undesirable facility

Ambec, Stefan; Kervinio, Yann - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

We consider the decentralized provision of a global public good with local external- ities in a spatially explicit model. Communities decide on the location of a facility that benefits everyone but exhibits costs to the host and its neighbors. They share the costs through transfers. We examine...

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The impact of perceptions in averting-decision models: An application of the special regressor method to drinking water choices

Bontemps, Christophe; Nauges, Céline - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

Individuals are commonly surveyed about their perception or assessment of risk and these variables are often used to explain individuals’ actions to protect themselves against these risks. Perceptions appear as endogenous variables in traditional theoretical averting-decision models but, quite...

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Empirical evidence on the impact of privatization of fixed-line operators on telecommunications performance - Comparing OECD, Latin American, and African countries

Gasmi, Farid; Maingard, Alexis; Noumba Um, Paul; … - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to highlight empirically some important worldwide differences in the impact of privatization … performance of the privatization reform can be explained to a large extent by cross-regional heterogeneity. We find that the … impact of privatization on outcomes is significantly positive in OECD and African resource scarce coastal countries, weakly …

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Supplier Fixed costs and Retail Market Monopolization

Caprice, Stéphane; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Wey, … - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

Considering a vertical structure with perfectly competitive upstream firms that deliver a homogenous good to a differentiated retail duopoly, we show that upstream fixed costs may help to monopolize the downstream market. We find that downstream prices increase in upstream firms'fixed costs when...

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Merger, Product Differentiation, and Trade Policy

Cavagnac, Michel; Cheikbossian, Guillaume - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

In a two-stage game with three firms and two countries, we study the profitability of a domestic merger in the context of an international oligopoly game with differentiated products and in a strategic trade policy environment. In contrast to a completely unregulated economy, we show that the...

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