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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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The performance of state-owned enterprises and newly privatized firms : empirical evidence from Egypt

Omran, Mohammed Fawzy - 2002

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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Publicization versus privatization : recent worldwide evidence

Clò, Stefano; Del Bo, Chiara; Ferraris, Matteo; … - 2014 - This version: 28 02 2014

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Skills and human capital for the low-carbon transition in developing and emerging economies

Vona, Francesco - 2023

Developing and emerging economies face enormous challenges to reconcile economic development and job creation with decarbonization. An essential aspect of such "early-stage" decoupling of growth and carbon emissions is to develop a skill base that favours the diffusion of green productions and...

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The role of standards in eco-innovation : lessons for policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2013

This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...

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Optimal clean energy R&D investments under uncertainty

Marangoni, Giacomo; De Maere d'Aertrycke, Gauthier; … - 2017

The availability of technology plays a major role in the feasibility and costs of climate policy. Nonetheless, technological change is highly uncertain and capital intensive, requiring risky efforts in research and development of clean energy technologies. In this paper, we introduce a two-track...

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