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economy of privatisation in Poland. First section deals, then, with political economy of privatisation in post …
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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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This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
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We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle … primary determinant of privatization policies. Privatization is a means to an end, of course, rather than an end in itself …. But we proceed under the assumption that policymakers have decided, for whatever reason, that privatization is a desirable …
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We examine the stock price reaction of rival firms to privatization announcements to infer information about industry … effects of privatization. We find that the rival firms reacted negatively to privatization announcements, thus suggesting that … find that the adverse reaction of the rival firms to privatization announcements in developing countries is stronger than …
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This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
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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 …
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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. …
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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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