competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage cost than under the public monopsony …

of ownership change that occurred. As competition among hospitals increases, differences in behavior among hospitals with …

). Furthermore, we analyze the effect of privatization on the timing of competition by endogenezing the determination of simultaneous … crucially rely on the type of competition assumed. We show that privatization has generally the effect of shifting from …The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of privatization in a mixed duopoly, where a private firm …

Disappointment with insider trading in Russia, with voucher privatization in the Czech Republic, and with the … privatization of infrastructure in many developing countries has spawned new critiques of privatization. How do theory and empirical … evidence answer the much-debated questions, Which is more important to performance, competition or private ownership? Are state …

competition is weak the government does not privatize the public firm and sets an environmental tax. When it is intermediate the … public firm is not privatized and the government sets an environmental standard. Finally, when market competition is strong …

competition is weak the government does not privatize the public firm and sets an environmental tax. When it is intermediate the … public firm is not privatized and the government sets an environmental standard. Finally, when market competition is strong …

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 …

Existing literature on mixed oligopoly focuses on competition among different types of firms but ignores their possible …