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The Missing Shock: The Macroeconomic Impact of British Privatisation

Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004

The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...

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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …

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Privatization and changes in the wage structure: evidence from firm personnel records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269136

Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2008

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288041

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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Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times: Public measures in support of the financial sector in the EU and the United States

Stolz, Stéphanie Marie; Wedow, Michael - 2010

The extensive public support measures for the financial sector have been key for the management of the current financial crisis. This paper gives a detailed description of the measures taken by central banks and governments and attempts a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of such...