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– particularly, privatization, liberalization and deregulation – was the establishment of a new business environment which permitted …One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s … former national telecommunications monopolies to expand internationally. From the 1990s, a number of these firms …
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One consequence of the liberalization of certain services in the European Union was that a number of formerly inward …-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed themselves into some of the world’s leading Multinationals …. However, the precise relationship between liberalization and incumbent internationalization is contested. This article tests …
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This article evaluates EU policies on public services – particularly public network services - from the citizens´ point of view. It is first argued that citizens´ perceptions about these services are important because they are essential for quality of life, but also because they exhibit...
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Local Public Transportation (LPT) in Italy is usually managed through inhouse companies owned by local governments. In the past few years a wave of reforms has invested the sector, with some regions trying to increase the companies' size. This paper provides an extensive review of the...
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companies do not meet their agreed-upon job targets in absolute terms, the evidence suggests that companies receiving subsidies …
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—the current regional recession. In short, privatization shares in the criticism directed at the entire liberalization process …. Within this context, accurate knowledge of privatization’s real consequences can be of considerable value. While research has … been conducted on certain economic effects, less is known about privatization’s broader social consequences. This chapter …
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The concept of privatization has been deepened due to the liberalization progress in the world economy since the … resolutions, after the collapsing of socialist regimes in the Eastern Block. Needless to say thai, the concept of privatization in … public bank privatization trends by focusing on to the privatization conception. As a final point, the public bgnks …
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Many scholars have interpreted the Russian government’s attack on the private oil companies, as in the most famous Yukos Crisis, as a legitimate battle against corruption. However, in the transition economies, the state can abuse its power by acting like a monopoly and not letting any...
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This paper studies the effects of privatization and non-ownership-change reforms on firms’ productivity in China. As … one of the most prominent empirical challenges in China privatization studies, endogeneity problems are addressed with a … first-difference instrumental variable GMM estimation. We find that privatization does not improve firms’ productivity …
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Spectrum reform initiatives in the US and Europe have identified a need to move away from the traditional command and control approach towards flexible and tradable licences and licence-exemption. Current regulatory initiatives are tending to focus on the flexible licensing route, and there is a...
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