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Design of Incentives in Community based Health Insurance Schemes

Ahuja, Rajeev; Jütting, Johannes - 2003

... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...

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Enterprises in transformation in emerging capitalist economies: The case of Estonia and Ukraine

Czaban, Laszlo - Manchester Business School - 2003

The sweeping political changes and institutional transformation in the former Soviet Union, together with the market shock created by the collapse of the Soviet economy were expected to generate substantial changes in firm behaviours. Privatisation, in particular, was thought to constitute the...

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Efficiency among Private Railway Companies in a weakly Regulated System: The Case of Britain’s Railways in 1893-1912

Mulatu, Abay; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper uses a stochastic cost frontier model to investigate the efficiency of Britain’s private railways during the period 1893-1912. We find that there was substantial inefficiency in the industry with no sign of reduction over time. Our main conclusion is that principal agent problems...

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Is Privatization Enough? Finding Performance Breaks for UK Power Plants

Triebs, Thomas P.; Pollitt, Michael G. - Judge Business School <Cambridge> - 2010

The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce … than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …

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Privatisation, Corporate Control and Employment Growth:Evidence From A Panel of Large Polish Firms, 1996-2002

Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate; Gerry, Christopher J - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2005

Using panel data on large Polish firms this paper examines the relationship between corporatecontrol structures, sales growth and the determinants of employment change during the period 1996-2002. We find that privatised and de novo firms are the main drivers of employment growth andthat, in the...

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Wage Bargaining, Privatisation, Ability to Pay, andOutside Options – Evidence from Hungary

Köllő, Janos; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2004

This paper examines the determinants of short-term wage dynamics, using asample of large Hungarian companies for the period of 1996-1999. We test thebasic implications of an efficient contract model of bargaining between theincumbent employees and the managers, which we are unable to reject....

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Corporate Governance and Industrial Relations in Poland

Federowicz, Michał - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2003

The paper discusses Polish privatisation from the industrial relations point of view. Itfocuses on the role of trade unions and workers councils in the privatisation process.Two polar privatisation blueprints are identified: those aiming at competitive ‘atomistic’firms and those, which...

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Changes in Corporate Governance Structures inPolish Privatised Companies

Kozarzewski, Piotr - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2002

The paper presents early results of the survey of 84 Polish privatised industrial companies, sampled from a list of the 500 biggest firms. Three aspects of corporate governance were analysed: ownership structure, management of the companies, and supervision structures. An attempt was made to...

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Pirates, Polities and Companies: Global Politics on the Konkan Littoral, c.1690-1756

Elliott, Derek L. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper examines pre-colonial interaction among polities along the Konkan coast, from Surat to Goa, during the long half-century c.1680-1756. Specifically it uses the dynasty of the Angrias, who were deemed pirates by the European powers but were actually an integral part of the Maratha...

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Fiscal and Financial Preconditions for the Rise of British Naval Hegemony1485-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

In recent decades the new institutional economics has redrawn attention to the significance of state sponsored and regulated institutions, organisations, laws, rules, customs and culturally conditioned behaviour for the promotion of long term economic development (Menard and Shirley, 2005)....

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