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forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …
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and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource …While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
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private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …
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Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control …
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added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
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that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …
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This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the … gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high … illustrates how China's gradual policy reforms, amidst highly imperfect financial markets, have effectively helped spur GDP growth …
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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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Hurricane Katrina did massive damage because New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were not appropriately protected. Wherever natural disasters threaten, the government -- in its traditional role as public goods provider -- must decide what level of protection to provide to an area. It does so by...
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Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners … rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …
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