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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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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...
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Many recent studies have looked at the macroeconomic, cultural and institutional determinants of corruption at the cross-national level. This study complements these existing cross-country studies by focusing on firm-level evidence of microeconomic factors affecting bribes paid in a single...
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This research examines the effects of privatization transaction strategy on enterprise performance in developing … economies. Focusing on trade sale privatization, we use an event-driven data strategy and time-series regression techniques on … realized when privatization trade sales introduce large-block foreign shareholdings and hybrid forms of governance, such as …
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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 …
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We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle … primary determinant of privatization policies. Privatization is a means to an end, of course, rather than an end in itself …. But we proceed under the assumption that policymakers have decided, for whatever reason, that privatization is a desirable …
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