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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?

Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016

This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...

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On the reversibility of structural reforms

Campos, Nauro; Horváth, Roman - 2012

evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase … wages and prices. -- reform reversals ; price liberalization ; trade liberalization ; privatization ; political economy …

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Economic reforms and productivity-enhancing reallocation in the post-Soviet transition

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

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Job satisfaction and self-selection into the public or private sector : evidence from a natural experiment

Danzer, Natalia - 2013

one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …

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Outsourcing public services : contractibility, cost, and quality

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...

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Are rushed privatizations substandard? : analyzing firm-level privatization under fiscal pressure

Hagemejer, Jan; Švejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … non-rush privatization. The negative effect of rushed privatization on the scale of operations and employment is even … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

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Privatizing disability insurance

Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022

Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of public DI cuts. Exploiting a unique reform...

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The effect of power outages and cheap talk on willingness to pay to reduce outages

Carlsson, Frederik; Martinsson, Peter; Akay, Alpaslan - 2009

Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...

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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market

Heshmati, Almas - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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