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Entry in liberalized railway markets : the German experience
Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2007 - Rev. version
In Germany, competitive franchising is increasingly being used to procure passenger railway services that were previously provided by a state monopolist. This paper analyzes 77 tenders that differ with respect to network size, service frequency, contract duration and the proximity to other lines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387556
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Industrial structure and privatisation of the Slovenian electricity industry
Hrovatin, N. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001369253
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Infrastructure quality in deregulated industries : is there an underinvestment problem
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider’s incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than under vertical integration, though we also provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001729423
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Privatizations in developing countries and the government's budget constraint
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - 2002
with increasing returns to scale. We show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the … privatization is likely to disappear once the product market allows the entry of more than one firm.In this paper, we study the … show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the shadow cost of public funds (i.e., the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597781
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Indo-U.S. FTA : prospects for the telecommunication sector
Mukherjee, Arpita (contributor); Ahuja, Prerna (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003397980
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Capital structure and regulation : does ownership matter?
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura; … - 2007
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Privatization in Western Europe : stylized facts, outcomes, and open issues
Bortolotti, Bernardo (contributor);  … - 2006
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The effects of privatization on R&D investments and patent productivity
Munari, Federico; Sobrero, Maurizio - 2002
Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …
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Privatization and R&D performance : an empirical analysis based on Tobin's q
Munari, Federico; Oriani, Raffaele - 2002
In this paper, we analyze the impact of privatization on the firms' R&D performance. We expect that, in the early … period after privatization, path dependencies still negatively affect the efficiency of R&D operations. We test our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597652