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The present paper analyzes the top ten Italian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) over the period 2004-2013, after both their corporate organization and their markets have been deeply reformed. We question whether SOEs' strategies are more profit or public oriented. The authors find that, on...
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data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …
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The present paper aims to provide some new evidence on how the insiders, i.e. employees of portfolio companies, view the Polish mass privatisation scheme. Based on two inquiries conducted in selected NIF firms in 1996 and 1998, it simultaneously offers a comparative analysis of the changes in...
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In our article we present the use of hybrid securities in the privatization process. We show that exchangeable bonds … may be successfully applied during privatization of state companies throughout the world. It may be profitable for many … privatization processes by means of exchangeable bonds i.a. in Germany and in Austria. Most of such operations, e.g. German Deutsche …
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transition is privatization, which implies transferring most of the former social ownership to private individuals. The … privatization process has marked the end of the twentieth century in Croatia and still carries many unanswered questions that have … arisen because of the persistent need for privatization in the former, unconsolidated state. Objectives: The main objective …
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within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …
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In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification … of the crowding-out effect, when the revenues of privatization are devoted to present public consumption. …
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In 1997, France Telecom, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. We adapt a …
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We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...
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analytically derive the welfare effect of privatization of port 2 and determine the optimal degree of privatization. Under Cournot … privatization, partial privatization and full nationalization, which hinges mainly upon the market size, both horizontal and … necessarily a one-size-fits-all strategy for port privatization, and it is important for policymakers to consider the effects of …
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