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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271758
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The imperative of international cooperation for EU competitiveness and resilience in technology-driven industries
Bauer, Matthias; Zilli, Renata; Pandya, Dyuti - 2023
The EU must embrace international cooperation and collaboration in technology-driven industries to ensure competitiveness and global relevance, while also considering the drawbacks of isolationist policies. The EU's commitment to open markets and global cooperation has historically been its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560202
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Standards for digital cooperation
Girard, Michel - 2020
Global data standards are urgently needed to foster digital cooperation and manage global tech platforms. No global organization is currently mandated to coordinate the development, maintenance and use of technical standards covering data value chains and policy-oriented standards covering data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565832
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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures
Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - 2004
The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294495
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Privatization and liberalization in vertically linked markets
Stähler, Frank; Traub, Stefan - 2009
liberalization and their privatization which can be complete or partial such that upstream production is still run by an SOE. We show … in most cases even if a holdup problem exists. For any vertically separated structure we find that privatization through … multi-product firms welfare dominates privatization through single-product firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298993
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Privatization and Restructuring in Concentrated Markets
Norback, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2004
This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes into account how much its own profit will increase....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324978
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The Political Economy of Privatization: Why Do Governments Want Reforms?
Boerner, Kira - 2004
International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324980
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324982
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Privatisation Methods and Economic Growth in Transition Economies
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James; Urga, Giovanni - 2004
We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324983
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Reluctant Privatization
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Faccio, Mara - 2004
through 2000. We find that governments do not relinquish control after "privatization." We show that the market-to-book ratios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325012