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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402871
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry : Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2021
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on … sales to foreign and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320899
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Labour, Profit and Housing Rent Shares in Italian GDP : Long-Run Trends and Recent Patterns
Torrini, Roberto - 2016
The share of labour increased in the first half of the 1970s, declined slowly to its 1960s level in 2001, and since then has been rising. Between 1975 and 2001, the decline in the labour share was due in part to the recovery in profits, and in part to a steady increase in housing rents on GDP,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994324
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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309155
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Methods of privatization and economic growth in transition economies
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor);  … - 2006
1990 to 2003. The estimating equation is augmented with country- and time-specific variables for methods of privatization … and other factors potentially relevant to growth in transition economies. It is found that ‘mass privatization’ is … associated with faster growth, but the other privatization methods have no significant impact. The findings suggest that in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003342122
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Political selection of firms into privatization programs : evidence from Romanian comprehensive data
Szentpéteri, Ádám; Telegdy, Álmos - 2009
Exploiting a unique institutional feature of the early Romanian privatization setup, when a group of firms was … explicitly barred from any privatization, we test how politicians select firms into privatization. Using comprehensive data that … includes all firms inherited from socialism, we estimate the relation between pre-privatization firm characteristics the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919610
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Privatisation around the world : new evidence from panel data
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fantini, Marcella; Siniscalco, … - 2001
This paper presents new evidence about privatisation processes and their determinants from a panel of 34 countries over the 1977-99 period. The empirical analysis shows that privatisation takes place typically in wealthy and democratic countries, endowed with deep and liquid stock markets, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400889
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a Ppreliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 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/10009747664
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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; … - 2005
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/10003095430
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Where Does Privatization Work? Understanding the Heterogeneity in Estimated Firm Performance Effects
Brown, J. David - 2016
Why do the reported effects of privatization on firm performance vary so much? This paper re-estimates these effects …, but they vary across countries and time periods. Our analysis of heterogeneity in privatization effectiveness finds little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005452