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...

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...

This paper contains an econometric analysis using country level panel data of 23 OECD countries for the period 1990 - 2000, extending existing empirical work, and more specifically work on the impact of privatization on public deficit, the impact on public debt and the impact on other...

La proposta di utilizzare i proventi delle privatizzazioni al fine di diminuire il debito pubblico in Italia è criticata per diversi motivi. Il debito italiano, ora più di 133 per cento del Pil è il risultato di squilibri fiscali fondamentali, compresa la grande evasione fiscale. Senza di...

This paper examines the causes for privatization in Ethiopia. As believed strongly, the decline trend of industrial output and capacity utilization of SOEs were the major causes at micro level behind the privatisation of SOEs in the country. Budget deficit and external debt coupled with the...

This paper contains an econometric analysis using country level panel data of 23 OECD countries for the period 1990 - 2000, extending existing empirical work, and more specifically work on the impact of privatization on public deficit, the impact on public debt and the impact on other...

This paper contains an econometric analysis using country level panel data of 23 OECD countries for the period 1990-2000, extending existing empirical work, and more specifically work on the impact of privatization on public deficit, the impact on public debt and the impact on other...

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, those East European countries that had partly privatized their pension systems in the 1990s or early 2000s increasingly scaled back their mandatory private retirement accounts and restored the role of public provision. What explains this wave of reversals...