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In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification … of the crowding-out effect, when the revenues of privatization are devoted to present public consumption. …
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In 1997, France Telecom, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. We adapt a …
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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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This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of independence; b) partial ownership of the state in the regulated...
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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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Stock market capitalization in developed countries grew while massive privatization plans were in progress. It is …
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This paper discusses the most important theoretical contributions to the literature on privatization, focusing on … emerging economies, and gives a summary on recent research concerning the ways privatization might affect the development of … privatization and the reduction in social welfare and the possibility that the privatization process itself may have conflicting …
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This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...
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Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …
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