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The demise of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR signaled a rush to privatization in Central and Eastern … and processes, which describe a free market capitalist system. However, the pace of privatization has not been the same … across the board. Whereas some of the Central and Eastern European countries are considered to be far ahead in privatization …
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Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria in 1992. Small scale privatization (SSP) of shops, restaurants and other consumer services … has been accomplished in the first stage of the complex process of privatization in Eastern Europe. It was also an … experiment for measuring the demand for previously state owned property and for verifying different techniques of privatization …
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This essay deals with the issues of privatisation and restructuring in transition economies. The topics are addressed in both a descriptive and empirical manner. The centre of the analysis is the interrelation of privatisation, the resulting ownership form and the expected and actual effect on...
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China’s reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has achieved notably through 30 years of reforms while the performance … affecting China’s reform of SOEs. Focuses in different periods of the reform are varied, as are the theories guiding decision …, and Lang Xianping vs. Gu Chujun within the 30 years as a clue, has put in a model theories that affect China’s reform of …
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This paper work assesses the key aspects of a framework for research on revolutions. Our approach includes a heuristic based on an idea suggested by Marx in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living”. From...
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The paper discusses the impact of state-business conflicts on the process of economic and political transition in the post-Soviet countries. After providing a short overview of main aspects of state-business relations and of the institutional equilibrium in the post-Soviet world, it continues by...
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, namely, the endogeneity problem. The endogeneity problem is present because decision-making process of privatization in China …Traditional panel stochastic frontier studies on privatization of Chinese State-owned firms face a major challenge … likely to be chosen for privatization because the local governments may have incentives to attract private investors or to …
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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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early 1990’. In the absence of an adequate outline for de-monopolization and privatization of the economy, the …
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This paper surveys the state of fiscal federalism in India, in the broader context of decentralization. We begin with an overview of the basic features and recent developments in intergovernmental fiscal relations, including the role of political institutions, the specifics of legislative and...
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