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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...

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Emotions and political unrest

Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2013

This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This reaction is predictable because individuals have a...

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The political economy of collective bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2002

We construct a political equilibrium in which employers and labour unions bargain over labour contracts, wage-earners and profit-earners lobby the government for taxation and labour market regulation, and labour market legislation must be accepted by the majority of voters. We show that the...

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Politics of randomness

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2002

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

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Precise control over legislative vote outcomes : a forensic approach to political economics

Matter, Ulrich; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2016

We propose a forensic approach to investigate the politico-economic forces that influence narrow vote outcomes in legislative assemblies. Applying nonparametric estimation techniques to a data set covering all roll call votes between 1990 and 2014, we can identify the existence of precise...

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