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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures
Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004
aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why …The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294495
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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Privatisierung und Deregulierung in Österreich in den 90er Jahren: Einige Anmerkungen aus Sicht der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie
Schneider, Friedrich - 2001
Schriftliche Fassung eines Vortrages anlässlich der Tagung zum Thema Deregulierung und Privatisierung: Erfahrungen …
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Should State-Owned Firms Change CEOs Before Privatization? The Case of the Telecommunications Industry
Chong, Alberto; Galdo, Virgilio - 2003
performance in the telecommunications industry before privatization as measured by penetration, operating efficiency, and … profitability. CEO change before privatization does appear to have real consequences in firm performance before privatization …. Moreover, findings are consistent with previous research that links CEO replacement and an increase in privatization prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327157
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Efficiency among Private Railway Companies in a weakly Regulated System: The Case of Britain’s Railways in 1893-1912
Mulatu, Abay; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper uses a stochastic cost frontier model to investigate the efficiency of Britain’s private railways during the … that private ownership per se is not sufficient to promote efficiency in the railway industry; it should be supported by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870948
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Is Privatization Enough? Finding Performance Breaks for UK Power Plants
Triebs, Thomas P.; Pollitt, Michael G. - Judge Business School <Cambridge> - 2010
than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354096
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Bank Ownership and Performance
Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo; Yañez, Mónica - 2004
This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327143
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Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - 2004
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks located in developing countries have fiscal costs because they are characterized by lower returns than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327147
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Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism: Reflections inspired by WTO accession
Woo, Wing Thye - 2001
The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China''s particular economic circumstances, or have been the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318608
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Feldstein's rhetoric of private retirement accounts
Avsar, Rojhat B. - 2008
. Martin Feldstein's pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his … rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both the political and the economic rhetoric of Social Security privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288065