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The Government Shareholder : Regulating Public Ownership of Private Enterprise
Templin, Benjamin A. - 2011
During the subprime financial crisis of 2007-2009, the U.S. transformed its policies from a focus on privatization and deregulation to one where the government plays an active role as a market participant. By the end of the 2009 fiscal year, the U.S. government became one of the largest...
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Energy Privatization and Liberalization in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary : Enabling Network Industry Growth and Convergence Through Flexible Regulation
Teksten, Ryan Dain - 2014
The paper introduces insights into a methodology for developing regulation applicable to networked industries … restructuring of networked utilities in transition economies, discuss the regulation experiences that followed the implementation of … this process, and chart a method in which to establish growth-enabling liberalization through regulation. By evaluating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192088
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Judicial versus private auctions : better without protection?
Paredes, Ricardo D.; Crisosto, Andrés; Martí, Philippe - In: Estudios de economía 41 (2014) 2, pp. 171-186
Using a sample of 680 and 1,300 judicial and private auctions respectively, we analyze the effect on the wealth of those the law is intended to protect of different regulations applicable to each type of auctions. We find that consistent with a simple economic model, Courts assign judicial...
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Regulatory frameworks for reforms of state-owned enterprises in Thailand and Malaysia
Wisuttisak, Pornchai; Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin - 2020
This paper studies the experience of regulatory reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Thailand and Malaysia. It explores the trends of regulatory reforms relating to the creation of privatization, liberalization, and competition. The paper focuses on the development of the regulatory...
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Public or Private Drinking Water? The Effects of Ownership and Benchmark Competition on U.S. Water System Regulatory Compliance and Household Water Expenditures
Wallsten, Scott; Kosec, Katrina - 2005
Whether water systems should be owned and operated by governments or private firms is intensely controversial, and little empirical research sheds light on the issue. In this paper we use a panel dataset that includes every community water system in the U.S. from 1997-2003 to test the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065472
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Do Systemic Externalities Render the Public-Private Dichotomy Irrelevant? The Case of US Private Fund Regulation
Nabilou, Hossein - 2013
the concept of public and private domains in constitutional law and economics, the private fund regulation will be … regulation may be justified. This paper further studies the two-pronged approach to addressing risk spillovers in the Dodd …-Frank act in light of the public-private dichotomy. First, the recent extension of government regulation to directly regulate …
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Private Regulation and Legal Integration : The European Example
Cafaggi, Fabrizio; Janczuk-Gorywoda, Agnieszka - 2015
Private regulation has become a highly debated phenomenon. Previous research has focused mostly on the effectiveness … regulation at the European level, where only questions of interest representation have attracted attention. Analyses of the … contribution of private regulation to the process of European legal integration, in particular, are lacking. We seek to fill this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150144
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Institutions, Contracts and Regulation of Infrastructure in Argentina
Abdala, Manuel A. - 2004
Massive privatization in the Argentine infrastructure and public service sectors gave an opportunity to explore why we observe notorious differences in regulatory design choices and performance outcomes across sectors, under the umbrella of similar nation-specific institutional characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070974
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Governance by mutual benchmarking in postal markets : how state owned enterprises may induce private competitors to observe policy goals
Hettich, Peter - 2010
-private competition, the benchmarking process described in this paper does not make use of coercive regulation and leaves the competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738339
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The 'Foreign Private Adviser' Exemption : A Potential Gap in the New Systemic Risk Regulatory Architecture
Overmyer, Michael I. - 2010
Since the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, policymakers have generally agreed that hedge funds can add to systemic risk in the U.S. economy. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (WSRCPA) aims in part to address this risk by granting regulators the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135375