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Why Reform Fails: The 'Politics of Policies' in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization
Hoffmann, Bert - 2007
this paper studies the paradigmatic case of telecommunications reform in Costa Rica it underscores the importance of these … 'politics of policies'. The analysis finds, however, that the failure of repeated liberalization initiatives was not only due to … policy-makers' errors in steering the project through 'the messy world of politics' (IDB); instead, as liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330105
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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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Choice and competition in the welfare state: Home care as the ideal quasi-market
Bergman, Mats A.; Jordahl, Henrik; Lundberg, Sofia - 2018
We study a reform by which a standardized model of choice and competition was introduced in tax-financed home care in a majority of Swedish municipalities. The market for home care is of particular interest since it is close to the ideal quasi-market. For identification, we exploit the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917089
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Sources of performance improvement in privatised firms: A clinical study of the global telecommunications industry
Megginson, William L.; Bortolotti, Bernardo; D'Souza, Juliet - 2001
financial and operating performance of telecommunications companies improves significantly after privatisation, but that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608788
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Reforms and Counter-Reforms in Bolivia
Jemio, Luis Carlos; Candia, Fernando; Evia, Jose Luis - 2009
This paper analyzes reforms and counter-reforms in Bolivia in recent decades and their effects on the policymaking process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivia's PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a "participative and direct type of democracy" where street protest and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328241
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries: A preliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294505
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The practice of social entrepreneurship: Theory and the Swedish experience
Stryjan, Yohanan - 2005
The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in the last years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as an important policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from a Schumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297048
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Management practices and the quality of primary care
Angelis, Jannis; Häger Glenngård, Anna; Jordahl, Henrik - 2017
Using the World Management Survey method, we map and analyse management quality in Swedish primary care centres. On average, private providers have higher management quality than public ones. We also find that centres with a high overall social deprivation among enrolled patients tend to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917050
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Exploring digital time measurement in the public sector: Labor productivity and service quality in home care
Jordahl, Henrik; Persson, Lovisa - 2018
We measure labor productivity in home care using new data from the recent introduction of digital time measurement in Swedish municipalities. By measuring worker utilization (delivered hours as a share of worked hours) we avoid several problems that have plagued previous studies of public sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917088
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Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?
Pearson, Mark; Martin, John P. - 2005
Some people make great claims about the advantages to be gained from greater reliance on the private sector for the provision of social protection. Many of the claims for great macroeconomic advantages do not stand up to scrutiny. However, there is some reason to hope that private provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262650