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Privatising network industries
Newbery, David M. G. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402670
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376342
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The UK's privatisation experiment : the passage of time permits a sober assessment
Parker, David - 2004
This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402692
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426052
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781518
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Arm's length provision of public services
Bennedsen, Morten (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624571
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Activists versus captured regulators
Daubanes, Julien; Rochet, Jean-Charles - 2013
We analyze the consequences of activism in a regulated industry where the regulator has been captured by the industry. Unlike ordinary economic agents, activists are insensitive to monetary incentives. Moreover, they are less well informed than regulators and their actions generate dead-weight...
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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003
This paper examines the consequences of creating a fully competitive market in a sector previously dominated by a cost-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical findings, our model implies that firms in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404420
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Private enforcement, corruption, and antitrust design
Grajzl, Peter; Baniak, Andrzej - 2015
Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384564
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Macroeconomic effects of social security privatization in a small unionized economy
Adam, Antonis (contributor) - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping … state may result in lower levels of employment and capital stock. In this case even if the privatization increases the … employment then a Paretoimproving pension privatization scheme can be constructed. …
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