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Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two …
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State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are often justified for correcting market failures, providing essential public services, and fulfilling social objectives. Yet, SOEs face unique governance challenges as agency conflicts usually increase with state ownership. This paper examines Brazil's efforts to...
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We investigate the role of ownership structure and investor protection in postprivatization corporate governance. We find that the government relinquishes control over time, mainly to the benefit of local institutions and foreign investors. We also show that private ownership tends to...
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This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based on Fortune Global 500 rankings), and...
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through 2000. We find that governments do not relinquish control after privatization. We show that the market-to-book ratios …
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Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … owners after privatization. Our results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried out by governments … before privatization. Controlling for endogeneity, several labor retrenchment policies yield a negative impacton net …
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The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
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