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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure : Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324911
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104681
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Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants : A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
Heshmati, Almas - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model that allows us to model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084669
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik - 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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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys : Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2016
Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with personalized feedback that will eventually lead to behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002449
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106946
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Asset Stripping, Rule of Law and Firm Survival : The Hoff-Stiglitz Model and Mass Privatization in Montenegro
Koman, Matjaz - 2013
-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient firms disappeared during mass privatization in a booming economy of Montenegro …. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon … remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071449
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John - 2007
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778446
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780018
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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 - 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...
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