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The Political Economy of Privatization: Why Do Governments Want Reforms?

Boerner, Kira - 2004

International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …

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The performance of state-owned enterprises and newly privatized firms: Empirical evidence from Egypt

Omran, Mohammed - 2002

Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …

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Capital Structure and Regulation: Does Ownership Matter?

Cambini, Carlo; Bortolotti, Bernardo; Rondi, Laura; … - 2007

We construct a comprehensive panel data of 96 publicly traded European utilities over the period 1994-2005 in order to study the relationship between the capital structure of regulated firms, regulated prices, and investments, and examine if and how this interaction is affected by ownership...

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Italys Privatization Process and Its Implications for China

Bortolotti, Bernardo - 2005

process. Particularly, it analyzes the symbiotic link between share issue privatization (SIP), i.e. privatization in public …

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The Evolution of Enterprise Reform in Africa: From State-owned Enterprises to Private Participation in Infrastructure - and Back?

Nellis, John - 2005

was largely abandoned by the IFIs and privatization and private participation in infrastructure, or PPI became the order …

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From Government to Regulatory Governance: Privatization and the Residual Role of the State

Perotti, Enrico; Bortolotti, Bernardo - 2005

This paper reviews the state of thinking on the governance role of public ownership and control. We argue that the transfer of operational control over productive assets to the private sector represents the most desirable governance, due to the inherent difficulty for citizens to constrain...

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Transforming public enterprise in France

Fridenson, Patrick - In: Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North …, (pp. 65-76). 2007

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When ugly ducklings grow up : cases from German utilities in energy, transport and telecommunications

Schröter, Harm G. - In: Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North …, (pp. 77-89). 2007

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Transforming network services in Spain

Clifton, Judith; Comín, Francisco; Díaz Fuentes, Daniel - In: Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North …, (pp. 90-105). 2007

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Privatisation and transnationalisation of network services in Portugal, 1980-2005

Nunes, Ana Bela; Bastien, Carlos; Valério, Nuno - In: Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North …, (pp. 106-116). 2007

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