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Turkey and the EU : politics and economics of accession

Flam, Harry - 2003

This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the greatest number of council votes within twenty years, and receive the largest budget transfer. Free migration may increase the Turkish immigrant population in Germany from 2 to...

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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers across the pre-existing states, with a single currency. Market integration was the economic outcome of this process. At the same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large...

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Startup stations : the impact of rail access on entrepreneurship (self-employment) in England and Wales

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Szumilo, Nikodem; Vernet, Antoine - 2024

We study the impact of improved rail access on entrepreneurship rates in England and Wales. We use data from the Census spanning 2001, 2011, and 2021 to analyse self-employment rates in granular geographic areas of around 200 residents. Specifically, we study how they respond to changes in the...

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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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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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Privatization in Austria : some theoretical reasons and first results about the privatization proceeds

Belke, Ansgar; Schneider, Friedrich - 2004

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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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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy

Mergele, Lukas; Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz - 2020

within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

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