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Public versus Private Ownership : Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks
Hoppe, Eva I.; Schmitz, Patrick W. - 2009
The government wants a certain good or service to be provided. Should the required assets be publicly or privately owned or should a partnership be formed‘ Building on the incomplete contracting approach, we argue that the initially specified quantity of an ex ante describable basic good can...
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Holdups, quality choice, and the Achilles' heel in government contracting
Bös, Dieter; Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2001
This paper investigates a procurement relationship between a welfare-oriented government and a private supplier. The agents face several versions of the trading good which differ in quality and production costs, and the differences between those items are undescribable ex ante. In presence of...
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Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior
Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000
The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...
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The effects of privatization and corporate governance of soes in transition economy : the case of Kazakhstan
Lee, Keun Jung - 2020
privatization (i.e., IPO) has different effects depending on the types of owners to whom it gives control in corporate governance …
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Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder : A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003
Lazzarini, Sérgio G. - 2010
There is growing interest in how governments shape industries and influence firm performance. Using a database of 296 firms traded on the São Paulo stock exchange between 1995 and 2003, we find having BNDES (the Brazilian National Development Bank) as a minority owner to increase firms' return...
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Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?
Pearson, Mark A.; Martin, John P. - 2021
Some people make great claims about the advantages to be gained from greater reliance on the private sector for the provision of social protection. Many of the claims for great macroeconomic advantages do not stand up to scrutiny. However, there is some reason to hope that private provision...
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Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?
Pearson, Mark - 2005
Some people make great claims about the advantages to be gained from greater reliance on the private sector for the provision of social protection. Many of the claims for great macroeconomic advantages do not stand up to scrutiny. However, there is some reason to hope that private provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446969
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State-owned suppliers, political connections and performance of privately-held firms : evidence from Belgian firm data
Muylle, Pablo; Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2024
While past decades were characterized by economic liberalization and deregulation, there re-mains an enduring presence of political influence over the private economy. Such influence can either benefit (e.g. government support addressed at survival and growth prospects) or harm (e.g. reduced...
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Improving Egypt’s business climate to revive private sector growth
Thiemann, Ania - 2024
Weak productivity in Egypt is rooted in deep-seated structural causes that impede market competition and prevent a more efficient resource allocation. This implies a number of challenges for economic policy to meet the objectives for long-term sustainable growth as set out in the National...
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Private sector development in the South and East Mediterranean region
Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012
This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and … development and, to a greater or lesser extent, privatization of stateowned assets. However, there is a great deal of … divided into two groups: one, including Algeria, Libya, and Syria, where reforms promoting privatization and private sector …
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