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This paper analyzes the post-privatization performance and organizational changes of a Pakistani State Owned Enterprise (SOE). Drawing on the concept of sustainable development, this study examines the performance of the firm from three perspectives - economic, social and environmental. The...
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During recent years, an increasing number of studies have started to discuss the introduction of new form of reports in public administration. Furthermore, the attention paid by academics has been favoured by the introduction of a new form of regulation by policy makers. Specifically, a large...
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In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic institutions that do not punish political corruption...
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Does ownership affect the way firms react to corporate taxation? This paper exploits key features of recent corporate tax reforms in China to shed light on the differential impact of taxation on firms under different ownership regimes including private, collectively owned and state owned...
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The study concerns the effects of Polish privatisation program conducted in the years 2008-2011. After drawing a broad picture of this process we investigate the performance of 59 privatised companies, and finally focus on a deeper analysis of three companies, which is the core part of our...
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We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government. Enterprise...
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The state owned enterprises were crucial in the early stage of industrial development in Turkey. They were producer of basic consumption goods and contributed the building the entrepreneurial understanding, and hence the development of the private sector. State owned enterprises have played key...
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It has been forty years since the oil crisis of 1973/74. This crisis has been one of the defining economic events of the 1970s and has shaped how many economists think about oil price shocks. In recent years, a large literature on the economic determinants of oil price fluctuations has emerged....
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Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO. The instruments used include export taxes, price...
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Die OPEC-Länder haben in den vergangenen Jahren stark vom steigenden Ölpreis profitiert. Die Nachfrage nach OPEC-Öl war … - abgesehen von der weltweiten Krise 2008/2009 - hoch. Dies hat auch den Zusammenhalt innerhalb der OPEC stabilisiert. Künftig … von Nicht-OPEC-Staaten an unkonventionellen Energieträgern (zum Beispiel Rohöl auf Basis von Ölsand und -schiefer, Shale …
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