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In this paper, we investigate whether Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), with readily pledgable Government assets, reduce the underinvestment problems faced by private sector firms in emerging markets. We analyse investment-cash flow sensitivity and its determinants for the partnering private...
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efficiency and performance. To identify the role of patronage connection in privatization, we use the mandatory retirement age … privatization deals and jumps in efficiency for privatized SOEs when local politicians lose connections to Central Committee members …
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In this paper, we investigate whether Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), with readily pledgable Government assets, reduce the underinvestment problems faced by private sector firms in emerging markets. We analyse investment-cash flow sensitivity and its determinants for the partnering private...
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We study the relation between state ownership and cash holdings in China's share-issue privatized firms from 1993 to 2007. We find that the level of cash holdings declines as state ownership increases. This negative relation is attributable to the soft-budget constraint (SBC) inherent in state...
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This study investigates the determinants of residual government ownership and the impact of such ownership on post-privatization … privatization …
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Previous theoretical and empirical studies suggest that CEOs' political connections are valuable to firms. We examine whether such connections become constraints if the expected political capital fails to materialize and the firm lacks other type of political power in place. Using a sample of...
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