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Privatisation Experiences in France
Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 33-40
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Water Sector Regulation in France
Barraqué, Bernard; Bris, Cédric Le - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 2, pp. 4-12
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Selling company shares to reluctant employees: France Telecom's experience
Degeorge, François; Jenter, Dirk; Moel, Alberto; … - 2002
In 1997, France Telecom, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. We adapt a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335778
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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....
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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 …
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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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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...
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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 …
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Privatization and Financial Market Development: Theoretical Issues
Chiesa, Gabriella; Nicodano, Giovanna - 2003
Stock market capitalization in developed countries grew while massive privatization plans were in progress. It is …
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Theory of Privatization in Eastern Europe: Literature Review
Schindele, Ibolya - 2003
This paper discusses the most important theoretical contributions to the literature on privatization, focusing on … emerging economies, and gives a summary on recent research concerning the ways privatization might affect the development of … privatization and the reduction in social welfare and the possibility that the privatization process itself may have conflicting …
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