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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures
Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004
The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … 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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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
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Trade in land transport services: Railways
Mukherjee, Arpita; Sachdeva, Ruchika - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807529
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Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India: Salient concepts, issues and cases
Jha, Nitish - 2010
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293264
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Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? The problem of India´s unbalanced growth
Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2007
It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … development pattern in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321626
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ICTs and rural development in India
Singh, Nirvikar - 2006
communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322716
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The social policies of emerging economies: Growth and welfare in China and India
de Haan, Arjan - 2013
reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397192