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Refinancing and the Profitability of UK PFI Projects
Toms, Steve - 2010
Using information collected by the National Audit Office, a comparison of several aspects of performance on recent Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts is conducted. The first aspect is a sector by sector comparison of refinancing profits, bearing in mind differential risk levels and in...
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The Missing Shock: The Macroeconomic Impact of British Privatisation
Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004
The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
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Privatization and Efficiency : Industry Effects of the Sale of British Airways
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2011
We analyze the effect of privatization on the performance of British Airways by examining the privatization's impact on … Airways' privatization, implying expectation of a more competitive British Airways. Closer rivals of British Airways … significantly upon privatization. The results suggest that a change from government to private ownership improves economic …
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Experience of Privatisation, Regulation and Competition : Lessons for Governments
Davies, Lesley - 2006
This policy paper offers a synthesis of research on privatisation and its impacts on the utilities sector in different countries. It identifies issues to be considered by policy makers concerned with economic reform, including the implications of sequencing privatisation together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733357
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Objectives and Incentives : Evidence from the Privatisation of Great Britain's Power Plants
Triebs, Thomas - 2020
Does privatisation increase firm productivity because the private owner's objective is different, or because she is better able to control management? Is privatisation sufficient to improve productivity, or is it only effective in combination with competition? We answer these questions for Great...
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The Privatization of Bankruptcy : Evidence from Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry
Franks, Julian R. - 2020
A generally accepted view is that sophisticated bankruptcy procedures are required to mitigate coordination failures and fire sale discounts arising from financial distress. In this paper, we study an industry not subject to mandatory bankruptcy procedures; instead, the shipping industry has...
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The Uk's Privatisation Experiment : The Passage of Time Permits a Sober Assessment
Parker, David - 2021
This paper looks at the UK's privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK's privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...
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Choice and competition in the welfare state : home care as the ideal quasi-market
Bergman, Mats A.; Jordahl, Henrik; Lundberg, Sofia - 2018
We study a reform by which a standardized model of choice and competition was introduced in tax-financed home care in a majority of Swedish municipalities. The market for home care is of particular interest since it is close to the ideal quasi-market. For identification, we exploit the different...
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The impacts of private hospital entry on the public market for elective care in England
Kelly, Elaine; Stoye, George - 2020
This paper examines the impacts of private hospital entry on publicly funded elective care in England. From 2006, private hospitals were encouraged to enter certain publicly funded markets to compete with existing public hospitals and stimulate quality improvements. Studying elective hip...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149593
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Management Control and Privatization in the United Kingdom
Cragg, Michael; Dyck, I. J. Alexander - 2000
We examine the links between ownership and internal control for a sample of 112 state-owned, privatized, and publicly traded firms in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1994. Privatized firms with at least four years in the private sector, like established publicly traded firms, exhibit a...
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