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Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - 2004

firms as well as all the banks and public services were state-owned. Since then, a series of privatization moves have caused …

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A fair price for energy? : ownership versus market opening in the EU15

Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...

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Stranded assets in the transition to a carbon-free economy

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon - 2019

Assets in the fossil fuel industries are at risk of losing market value due to anticipated breakthroughs in renewable technology and governments stepping up climate policies in the light of the Paris commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. Stranded assets arise due to...

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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004

U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...

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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues

Goldstein, Andrea - 2003

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …

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Voter support for privatizing education : evidence on self-interest and ideology

Merzyn, Wolfram; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2003

Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these arguments influence voters opinions. We analyze two popular referenda in which some 400,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the...

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Privatization under asymmetric information

Bös, Dieter - 2000

This paper models privatization as a cooperative game between the government, a trade union and the private … shareholders. These players kno w that privatization increases the efficiency of a firm, but only the management of the firm knows …

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Income inequality and oligarchs in Russian regions : a note

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Gundacker, Lidwina - 2017

We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path towards market economy, among other factors, gave rise to...

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External constraints matter for privatizations

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014

We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...

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Privatising network industries

Newbery, David M. G. - 2004

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