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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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Strong Managers and Passive Institutional Investors in the UK

Goergen, Marc; Renneboog, Luc - 1999

The first striking feature is that ownership of the average UK company is diffuse: a coalition of at least eight shareholders is required to reach an absolute majority of voting rights. Even though the average firm has a dispersed ownership, the reader should bear in mind that there are about...

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Ownership and Control in the Netherlands

de Jongand, Abe; Kabir, Rezaul; Marra, Teye; Roell, Ailsa - 1999

This paper analyses ownership and control structures of Dutch listed companies. Legislation effective since 1992 mandates all shareholders with holdings of 5 percent or more in Dutch companies to disclose their holdings. Our analysis shows that the average ownership stakes of the largest and the...

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Ownership and voting power in France

Bloch, Laurence; Kremp, Elizabeth - 1999

This paper provides an overview on ownership structure and voting power in France, both in terms of institutional and legal framework and of quantitative analysis. If cross share holdings in large groups were a characteristic of the French model, called «financial core», and had been extended...

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The economic returns to schooling for Italians: An evaluation based on instrumental variables

Brunello, Giorgio; Miniaci, Raffaele - 1998

We study the relationship between (log) current earnings and educational levels in Italy. In line with other international evidence, we find that OLS under-estimate the marginal return to additional education. When the endogeneity of educational choice is taken into account, the marginal return...

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