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The authors explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. The authors exploit a unique dataset comprising firm-level information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development and transition...
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The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies … privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization … development. In China relatively more estimates suggest that privatization to domestic owners improves the level of performance …
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This paper analyses the ownership structure emerging from the Russian privatization process, using information from a … privatization methods for ownership structure, on the incidence of non-voting and voting shares, and on the extent of concentration …) estimates, suggesting that the privatization process may have contained a negative selection bias with respect to ownership by …
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A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...
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This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation model to explore the distributional and poverty-related effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Mali, a poor country in West Africa. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in...
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This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) macro-micro model to explore the distributional effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Senegal. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in Senegal by income quintiles, between 1995 and 2001....
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We investigate whether competitive forces and privatization have yet began to play an efficiency-enhancing role in … conclude that privatization is having an impact on enterprise efficiency and restructuring but domestic market structure and …
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