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Corruption and Technology-Induced Private Sector Development.
Yehoue, Etienne B - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042567
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What's Driving Private Investment in Malaysia? Aggregate Trends and Firm-Level Evidence.
Guimarães, Roberto Pereira - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SOME STYLIZED FACTS -- III. DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE INVESTMENT -- IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIX: A CANONICAL MODEL OF CORPORATE INVESTMENT -- References.
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Where Does the Public Sector End and the Private Sector Begin?
Lienert, Ian - 2009
The boundary between the public and private sectors can be defined on the basis of ownership of institutional units. Nonmarket government-owned entities and corporations that are owned or controlled by government units belong to the public sector. "Economic ownership" is more important than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677790
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Do IMF Programs Stimulate Private Sector Investment?
Bomprezzi, Pietro - 2022
This paper provides new evidence on the role of IMF programs in stimulating private sector investments. Using detailed firm-level data on tangible fixed assets and a local projection methodology, we first estimate the dynamic response of firm investments to the approval of an IMF arrangement. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060247
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Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?
Behar, Alberto - 2013
We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled datasets for a large cross-section of developing and advanced countries, and discuss the implications for countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409429
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Public-Private Wage Differentials and Interactions Across Countries and Time
Abdallah, Chadi - 2023
We compile a novel database on average public and private sector wages and public-private wage differentials, which we use to analyze how average public-private wage differentials vary according to gender and skill level as well as over time. We further examine the dynamic relationship between...
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Governments’ Payment Discipline: The Macroeconomic Impact of Public Payment Delays and Arrears
Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Klemm, Alexander; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
This paper considers the impact of changes in the payment discipline of governments on the private sector. We argue that increased delays in public payments can affect private sector liquidity and profits and hence ultimately economic growth. We test this prediction empirically for European...
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Evidenceon the Fiscal and Macroeconomic Impact of Privatization
Barnett, Steven - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between privatization and measures of fiscal and macroeconomic … performance. One of the main findings is that privatization proceeds transferred to the budget tend to be saved. Specifically …. However, by construction, this part of the study is restricted to privatization proceeds transferred to the budget, leaving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263981
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Local governments’ fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries
Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012
liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly 'no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational f …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618582
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What Do Remittances Do? Analyzing the Private Remittance Transmission Mechanism in El Salvador.
Nery Saca, Nolvia - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BRIEF REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON EL SALVADOR'S RECEIPTS OF REMITTANCES -- III. STYLIZED FACTS OF EL SALVADOR'S ECONOMY, 1995-2004 -- IV. MODEL SPECIFICATION AND DATA ISSUES -- V. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: TRANSMISSION MECHANISM -- VI. CONCLUSIONS AND ECONOMIC...
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