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The Regulation and Privatisation of the Public Water Supply and the Resulting Competitive Effects

Wackerbauer, Johann - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 4, pp. 42-49

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Regulation of Water Supply in Germany

Kraemer, R. Andreas; Pielen, Britta; de Roo, Colette - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 21-26

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Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011

We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA … associated with an increase in efficiency of between 3.2 and 5.4%. We defined four alternative post-privatization periods and …

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Accounting for Variations in Trade Union Effectiveness: State-Labor Relations in East Central Europe

Avdagic, Sabina - 2003

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

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On the origins of the Franco-German EMU controversies

Maes, Ivo - 2002

EMU is, to a large extent, the result of a process of Franco-German reconciliation and understanding. However, in the postwar period, there were significant differences in ideas and economic policy-making in Germany and France. France was dominated by the "tradition républicaine", giving a...

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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm: The Polish transition experience

De Crombrugghe, Alain; De Walque, Gregory - 2011

Most transition countries used tax-supported wage norms in the early 1990's, as a part of their market liberalization programs. This paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre-set wage norm may promote employment by rotating the labor demand curve perceived by the...

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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany

Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - 2009

The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both...

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The merits of insider privatization: What Russia can learn from Eastern Central Europe

Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1993

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled … adopt a myopic attitude, and neglect the long-run profitability of their firms. Centrally organized privatization programs …. However, such privatization programs challenge the present position of managers, workers, and local bureaucrats. The insiders …

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The legacy of state socialism as a challenge to systemic transformation: Poland in comparative perspective

Adamski, Wladyslaw - 1998

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The Emergence of Large Shareholders in Mass Privatized Firms: Evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic

Grosfeld, Irena; Hashi, Iraj - 2004

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two …

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