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Sales Force and Competition in Financial Product Markets : The Case of Mexico's Social Security Privatization
Hastings, Justine S. - 2014
market. We use detailed administrative data on fund manager choices and worker characteristics at the inception of Mexico …
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Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity : Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Hastings, Justine S. - 2010
We use responses to a survey and experiment with participants in Mexico's privatized social security system to examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758108
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The Benefits of Privatization : Evidence from Mexico
La Porta, Rafael; Lopez de Silanes, Florencio - 2021
Criticisms of privatization have centered around the possibility that the observed higher profitability of privatized … back generous labor contracts. Using data for all 218 non-financial privatizations that took place in Mexico between 1983 … and 1991 we find that privatized firms quickly bridge the pre-privatization performance gap with industry-matched control …
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Private Returns to Public Office
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2012
We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...
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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...
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Private Politics and Public Regulation
Egorov, Georgy - 2013
We develop a dynamic game to explore the interaction between regulation and private policies, such as self-regulation by firms and activism. Without a public regulator, the possibility of self-regulation is bad for the firm, but good for activists who are willing to maintain a costly boycott to...
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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption
Cai, Hongbin - 2010
This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...
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Private and Public Supply of Liquidity
Holmström, Bengt R. - 2008
This paper addresses a basic yet unresolved question: Do claims on private assets provide sufficient liquidity for an efficient functioning of the productive sector? Or does the State have a role in creating liquidity and regulating it either through adjustments in the stock of government...
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Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing?
Dippel, Christian - 2019
Using a newly constructed complete monthly panel of private and public state prisons, we ask whether private prisons impact judges' sentencing decisions in their state. We employ two identification strategies, a difference-in-difference strategy comparing court-pairs that straddle state-borders,...
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Do Public Firms Respond to Industry Opportunities More than Private Firms? The Impact of Initial Firm Quality
Maksimovic, Vojislav - 2019
We track firms at birth and compare the growth pattern of IPO firms and their birth-matched counterparts. Firms that are larger at birth with faster initial growth are more likely to attain a larger size later in life and go public. Firms in the top percentile of predicted propensity to go...
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