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One for all and all for one : privatization and Universal Service provision in the postal sector
Schuster, Philipp B. - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 25/27, pp. 3667-3682
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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues
Goldstein, Andrea - 2003
This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …
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Pensions and power : the political and market dynamics of public pension plans
Kolasi, Erald - In: Review of capital as power 2 (2022) 2, pp. 46-80
This paper uses the theory of "capital as power" to analyze the struggle over public pensions in the United States. While mainstream commentators claim that public pensions must be "reformed" because they are "under funded", I argue that the metrics used to make this argument are unsound....
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Do reforms sequences matter for Telecom sector performance? : evidence from MENA countries
Cambini, Carlo; Ezzat, Riham; Staropoli, Carine - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 713-743
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Liberalization, hysteresis, and labor relations in Western European commercial aviation
Reale, Filippo Gian-Antonio - 2017
Airlines have reacted in many ways to the liberalization and privatization of commercial aviation in Western Europe …Fluggesellschaften haben mit verschiedenen Mitteln auf die Liberalisierung und Privatisierung der kommerziellen …
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The effects of liberalization and deregulation on the performance of financial institutions : the case of the German life insurance market
Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda - 2008
The German insurance market was liberalized in 1994 by the introduction of the "single passport" allowing European insurers to operate throughout the entire European Union. The European directive put also an end to price and insurance contract terms regulation. These measures were meant for...
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Paving the Road to 'Too Big to Fail : ' Business Interests and the Politics of Financial Deregulation in the U.S
Suarez, Sandra L. - 2010
Given the fragmented structure of the U.S. government, business is able to capitalize on its structural power only when it is united. This paper illustrates this dynamic through an analysis of the processes leading to the enactment of the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) of 1999, which repealed...
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Effect of Group Affiliation, Ownership Structures, and New Entries on Efficiency : Lessons from the Japanese Life Insurance Industry after Deregulation
Yanase, Noriyoshi - 2010
Deregulation and the succeeding changes, such as forming group affiliation, demutualization, and new entry from foreign countries, are widespread and worldwide phenomenon in the life insurance industry. This study examines impacts of the deregulation and the succeeding changes on efficiency of...
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Regulatory Reform and Risk-Taking : Replacing Ratings
Becker, Bo - 2014
We analyze a reform of insurance companies' capital requirements for mortgage-backed securities. First, credit ratings were replaced as inputs to capital regulation. Second, the redesigned system ensures capital buffers sufficient to withstand expected losses, but insufficient to protect against...
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India's insurance sector: challenges and opportunities
Ray, Saon; Thakur, Vasundhara; Bandyopadhyay, Kuntala - 2020
India's insurance sector has been growing dynamically in the last couple of years. Despite the suite of reforms that have been implemented to stoke the sector's growth, it still has a long way to go, as its share in the global insurance market remains abysmally low. In this paper, we analyse the...
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