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privatization in different countries. The discussed effects include: effects on consumers, tax-payers, workers, shareholders; on …
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Is privatization per se socially beneficial? Or do those benefits depend on the subsequent changes in the regulatory … counterfactuals about British Telecom privatization and regulation. In the factual scenario, the British government decided to …
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The standard electricity industry reform paradigm in several EU countries since the 1990s includes privatization … insists on a rather unified approach, aiming at the full opening of the internal market. Privatization neither is a necessary … and survey data on consumer satisfaction in the EU-15. Our empirical findings reject the prediction that privatization …
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Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls.. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
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Public enterprises never disappeared in spite of several privatization waves in the last three decades. This paper … and acquisitions confirms that in the last ten years there has been an increase of publicization relative to privatization …
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In recent decades, market-opening policies in local public transport (LPT) have impacted most European countries. However, we can observe a high degree of variability in possible LPT arrangements, from public monopolies to open markets. This work addresses the following research question: How...
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The proposal to use privatization proceeds in order to decrease public debt in Italy is criticized for several reasons … tax evasion. Without targeting such unbalances, the privatization proceeds will only contribute to delaying a fiscal …
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