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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Beteiligungsberichterstattung der öffentlichen Hand im 13-Länder-Vergleich: Erfordernisse für mehr Transparenz über die Governance und Performance öffentlicher Unternehmen

Papenfuß, Ulf; Steinhauer, Lars; Friedländer, Benjamin - 2015

[Einführung und Motivation ...] Die Studie bietet eine erste Orientierungshilfe für Praxis und Wissenschaft. Sie leistet damit auch eine notwendige Basis für weiterführende vergleichende Analysen des Beteiligungsberichtswesens im internationalen Kontext. In Kapitel 2 werden Relevanz von und...

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Security of property as a public good: Institutions, socio-political environment and experimental behavior in five countries

Campos-Ortiz, Francisco; Putterman, Louis; Ahn, T. K.; … - 2012

We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries - Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South …

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Quo vadimus. Grundgedanken zum Verhältnis von Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Staat

Bartel, Rainer - 2000

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Privatisation and renationalisation: What went wrong in Bolivia's water sector?

Hailu, Degol; Osório, Rafael Guerreiro; Tsukada, Raquel - 2009

This paper investigates the concentration of access to safe water across income levels in Bolivia. In particular, it focuses on how privatisation has changed coverage, affordability and the concentration of access to water on the part of the poor. We compare the performance of cities in which...

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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries: A preliminary explanation using a public choice approach

Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...

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