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Political connections, state ownership and productivity in China
Harris, Richard I. D.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Ding, Sai - 2016
Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571621
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The dynamic effects of fiscal policy and fiscal multipliers in Tunisia
Hédi Lahouel, Mohamed el; Ben Tahar, Moez; Ben … - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 33, pp. 3967-3985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014559244
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State ownership and control in the Czech Republic
Kočenda, Evžen; Hanousek, Jan - 2009
We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade … bureaucracy are the most likely reasons behind our findings. -- state ownership ; control ; corporate performance ; privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887481
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Full privatization through controlling rights transfer in China : the extent of its success
Bai, Yunxia; Lin, Bingxuan; Wang, Yaping; Wu, Liansheng - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 13/15, pp. 1857-1867
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009758505
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Different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2005
larger reform package of economic liberalisation in formerly overregulated economies, (b) as a reaction to an increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003204038
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A macroeconomic analysis of energy subsidies in a small open economy
Glomm, Gerhard; Jung, Jürgen - 2015
sector production. The model is calibrated to Egypt and used to study reforms such as reductions in energy subsidies with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479353
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Whither public interest : the case of Greece's public finances
Moutos, Thomas; Tsitsikas, Christos - 2010
During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979327
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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2019
This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After … defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform … industry-specific SOE reform trends as well as the latest reform developments. Until today, a stable, successful, longterm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026451
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Direct democracy : chances and challenges
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015 - Extended written version, May 2015
This paper discusses several problems of direct popular decisions. In the first part, we consider problems related to the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and not if only occasional single questions are brought to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528966
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Elite persistence and policy persistence : re-installed mayors from Weimar Germany
Nitschke, Remo; Rösel, Felix - 2023
changed. We conclude that elite persistence dominates place-based features such as geography or population preferences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013536127