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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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From private bankers to public banks in the Kingdom of Naples (16th-17th century)

Avallone, Paola; Salvemini, Raffaella - In: Islamic Financial Institutions from the Early Modern …, (pp. 141-154). 2024

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The Impact of Regional Banking Systems on Firms and SMEs – Evidence from five European Countries

Schmidt, Daniel - 2021

Banks perform similar functions all over the world. Nevertheless, the banking systems around the world are very different. This paper analyses how the difference affects local firms as well as small and medium-sized enterprises. For my project, I combine banking and economic data of five EU...

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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...

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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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Privatisations as price reforms : evaluating consumers' welfare changes in the UK

Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2002

This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...

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