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¿ Las Empresas Públicas funcionan en general con una menor eficiencia que sus equivalentes Privadas, como reza el tópico al respecto? Se trata de un lugar común utilizado profusamente como un axioma indiscutible, principalmente desde posiciones políticas conservadoras. Aunque también...
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This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in Sierra Leone using data from the 2004 Integrated Household Survey. One-third of primary school students attend government schools and more than half are in...
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This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo using data from the 2004-2005 "123" survey. More than two thirds of primary school students attend faith-based...
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This paper uses recent household survey data for Cameroon to measure the cost for households of the education services that their children receive and assess how this cost varies according to the type of service provider. Contrary to what has been observed in some other countries, the data...
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This study investigates social welfare and privatization depending on the government's preference for tax revenues and the timing of wage setting in either a unionized-mixed or a unionized-privatized duopolistic market. We show that bargaining over wages is always sequential regardless of who...
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There has been a fundamental development in theory and understanding of market, private, collective and public organizations in recent years. This paper incorporates achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law,...
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By introducing the government's preference for tax revenues into unionized mixed duopolies, this paper investigates how the preference can change the government's choice of tax regimes between ad valorem and specific taxes. Main results are as follows. Given that one of the tax regimes is...
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the development of national healthcare markets in the convergence to a single health care market in the EU. The desired … the creation of a mandate to the EU in the health sector. Question is whether and to what extent the state is losing its … influence on public health structures, and what consequences it can have, if the services are not permanently guaranteed by any …
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"competitive" health insurance markets. I use the insurance choices of senior citizens in the U.S. as an example. I then consider … the issue of whether consumers benefit when we create more choice by letting private firms offer health insurance in … (ii) empirical results show that consumers are very confused about their health insurance options. Thus, I argue …
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regarding transport, communication, energy, education, health services,...etc.- to get the corresponding public firm to increase …
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