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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking
Mishra, Prachi - 2019
Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479645
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Back on the Rails : Competition and Productivity in State-owned Industry
Das, Sanghamitra - 2010
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462676
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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020
We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global "best practices" including comprehensive assessments, detailed school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482348
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What is the Business of Business?
Nilsson, Andreas - 2017
This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455177
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Privatization and nationalization cycles
Chang, Roberto - 2009
"This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394323
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Privatization and Nationalization Cycles
Chang, Roberto - 2010
This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … determinants of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462530
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Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales
Beach, Brian - 2016
Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine how this affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration districts, spanning 1869 to 1910, with detailed waterworks information. Identification is aided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456126
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The Costs and Benefits of Clan Culture : Elite Control versus Cooperation in China
Chen, Shuo; Fisman, Raymond; Lan, Xiaohuan; Wang, Yongxiang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Kinship ties are a common institution that may facilitate in-group coordination and cooperation. Yet their benefits - or lack thereof - depend crucially on the broader institutional environment. We study how the prevalence of clan ties affect how communities confronted two well-studied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544693
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Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
Dube, Arindrajit - 2011
We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461705
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Hospital Ownership and Public Medical Spending
Duggan, Mark - 2000
The hospital market is served by firms that are private for-profit, private not-for-profit, and government-owned and operated. I use a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financing that was intended to improve medical care for the poor to test three theories of organizational behavior. My...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470961