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Privatization and policy competition for FDI
Amerighi, Oscar; De Feo, Giuseppe - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2008
In this paper, we provide an explanation of why privatization may attract foreign investorsinterested in entering a … regional market. Privatization turns the formerly-public firm into a lessaggressive competitor since profit- maximizing output …/subsidycompetition for FDI before and after privatization. We show that policy competition isirrelevant in the presence of a public firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868747
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354035
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354096
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360652
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Mixed duopoly, privatizationand the shadow cost of public funds
Capuano, Carlo; De Feo, Giuseppe - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics … - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of privatization in a mixed duopoly, wherea private firm …). Furthermore, weanalyze the effect of privatization on the timing of competition by endogenizing thedetermination of simultaneous … especially relevant for theanalysis of privatization, given that results and policy prescription emerged in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868731
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COURNOT Vs STACKELBERG EQUILIBRIA WITH APUBLIC ENTERPRISE AND INTERNATIONALCOMPETITION
Cornes, Richard; Sepahvand, Mehrdad - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2003
This paper examines the validity of alternative assumptions aboutpublic enterprise strategies in the presence of both domestic and internationalcompetition. It extends the quantity-setting game to apreplay stage and endogenizes the firms’ order of moves to show thati) Cournot competition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868901
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PRIVATISATION IN A REGULATED MARKET, OPENTO FOREIGN COMPETITION
Sepahvand, Mehrdad - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2002
The emerging literature on interaction between strategic trade theoryand privatisation uses a simple example to argue that the irrelevanceresult is invalidated if the domestic market is open to foreigncompetition.This paper uses a fairly general framework to show that anythinga regulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868944
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Privatisierungshemmnisse - dargestellt am Beispiel der deutschen Abwasserwirtschaft
Winkler, Alexander - 1999
Die vorliegende Arbeit möchte am Beispiel der deutschen Abwasserwirtschaft zeigen, daß Privatisierungen möglich und auch notwendig sind, zahlreiche Faktoren jedoch dazu beitragen, daß es eben nicht zu diesen Privatisierungen kommt.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005844511
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Sample- and segment-size specific Model Selection in Mixture Regression Analysis
Sarstedt, Marko - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2006
As mixture regression models increasingly receive attention from both theory and practice, the question of selecting the correct number of segments gains urgency. A misspecification can lead to an under- or oversegmentation, thus resulting in flawed management decisions on customer targeting or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418832
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Identifying Structural Effects in NonseparableSystems Using Covariates
White, Halbert; Chalak, Karim - Boston College / Department of Economics - 2008
This paper demonstrates the extensive scope of an alternative to standardinstrumental variables methods, namely covariate-based methods, for identifying and es-timating effects of interest in general structural systems. As we show, commonly usedeconometric methods, speci…cally parametric,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302533