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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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In this paper we estimate the effects of the 1991 breakups of Czechoslovak state owned enterprises (SOEs) on subsequent performance of the master enterprises and the spun-off units. Our analysis is based on quarterly and annual data of Czechoslovak industrial enterprises. We estimate the...
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Using firm-level data, we estimate the effects of the major wave of 1991 breakups of Czechoslovak state-owned enterprises on the subsequent performance of the "master enterprises" and spun-off divisions. We estimate the performance effects of spinoffs by comparing the performance of enterprises...
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mechanism of efficiency improvement relating to partial privatization. In this paper, we endogenize efficiency improvement in … relation to the level of privatization. We show that in the short run, an improvement in efficiency associated with a state … full nationalization. However, we argue that the optimal policy for a state-owned firm is partial privatization. Moreover …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...
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