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Enterprises in transformation in emerging capitalist economies: The case of Estonia and Ukraine

Czaban, Laszlo - Manchester Business School - 2003

The sweeping political changes and institutional transformation in the former Soviet Union, together with the market shock created by the collapse of the Soviet economy were expected to generate substantial changes in firm behaviours. Privatisation, in particular, was thought to constitute the...

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Science, Standards and Infrastructure Provision through the PFI – a case study of the National Physical Laboratory

Boden, Rebecca; Cox, Deborah - Manchester Business School - 2009

This paper utilises evidence from the first collapse of a private finance initiative in the UK, that of the National Physical Laboratory, to examine the reality of PFIs in contrast to the rhetoric presented by government...

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Efficiency among Private Railway Companies in a weakly Regulated System: The Case of Britain’s Railways in 1893-1912

Mulatu, Abay; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper uses a stochastic cost frontier model to investigate the efficiency of Britain’s private railways during the period 1893-1912. We find that there was substantial inefficiency in the industry with no sign of reduction over time. Our main conclusion is that principal agent problems...

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BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATEWELFARE : A TYPOLOGY AND MAP OF SERVICES

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1997

This paper develops a typology of welfare services and attempts toillustrate its use in clarifying discussions about the privatisation ofwelfare and in analysing changes in expenditure. A third dimension,which concerns the extent of the consumer’s decision-making power andturns on the question...

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Public and Private Welfare Activity in the UnitedKingdom, 1979 to 1999

Smithies, Rachel - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper analyses the shifting balance between public sector and privatesector welfare provision in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. Fivesectors – education, health, personal social services, housing, and incomemaintenance and social security – are examined over three time...

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Is Privatization Enough? Finding Performance Breaks for UK Power Plants

Triebs, Thomas P.; Pollitt, Michael G. - Judge Business School <Cambridge> - 2010

The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce … than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …

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The Financial and Operating Performance ofPrivatized Firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

firms. First,accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operatingperformance of … different to private counterparts. Overallresults, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was not as successful as it …

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Reform of Russian Power Industry

Hubert, Franz; Matthey, Astrid; Andrianov, Alexandr - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / Chair … - 2003

politics emphasized restructuring and privatization,which are widely seen as preconditions for attracting private investment …

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Studying the past to plan for the future: A case study analysis of the unintended and indirect effects of regulation on productivity

Bakker, Gerban; Iliopoulou, Stavroula - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2007

Within the debate on the UK productivity gap regulation has been identified as a potential cause. This paper investigates the effect of regulation on productivity by exclusively focusing on indirect, unintended and/or unforeseen effects. First we develop a conceptual framework, then we use this...

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A systematic approach to the comparison of Management and Financing models in the European toll road sector

Alfen, Hans Wilhelm; Barckhahn, Sven - 2006

The share of privately managed road infrastructure throughout Western Europe is relatively high; the progress among these countries is unequally developed. While private concessionaires have been established in England, France, Spain, Finland, France, Italy and Portugal since the late 1950s,...

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