After controlling for firm-level factor intensities and scale, and industry-level concentration, total factor productivity differentials between MNC (multinational corporation) joint ventures or SOEs (state-owned enterprises) and private firms were usually positive and statistically significant...

We analyze a mixed oligopoly with free entry by private firms, assuming that a public firm maximizes an increasing function of output, subject to a break-even constraint. We establish an irrelevance result: whenever a mixed oligopoly is viable, then aggregate output, aggregate costs and welfare...

El modelo de financiación y gestión de los aeropuertos está sometido a un proceso de reforma en España. Este trabajo pretende contribuir a este proceso de política pública. Para ello, se caracterizan los modelos de gestión aeroportuaria en los países de la UE y anglosajones, y se...

Government-linked companies (GLCs) have a significant presence in Singapore's corporate sector. Unlike parastatals in many other countries, these companies are run on a competitive, commercial basis, ostensibly without government privileges. Based on data from publicly listed GLCs and non-GLCs,...

Diversity matters, both at the firm and at the macro-economic level. This is the driving mission of JEOD. While the importance of diversity is already quite well recognized in other disciplines as a major source of wellbeing and quality of life, an open discussion on diversity in economics...

This article discusses China’s incremental approach to SOE reform, the difficulties of continuing this approach as the need to make efficiency gains across all sectors of the economy becomes more acute, and future reform options and the challenges in carrying them out.

The research focuses on an analysis of the course of the unitary enterprises reform and studying challenges and conflicts arising during the process and assessment of its prospects in the context of the challenges associated with modernization of the national economy Russia faces today. The...

In the article, the key indicators that characterize the results and resources of a SME sector in 2012, as well as their results’ evolution since 2006 have been calculated and analyzed. In particular, there were calculated and evaluated the principal elements of the SMEs’ contribution to the...

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on inference from nonexperimental data. In contrast, this paper exploits a procompetitive policy reform to provide estimates of the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The...

Public–private partnerships, or PPPs, have the potential to address a range of urban economic issues. As of late 2012, thirty-two U.S. states and Puerto Rico had enacted legislation enabling the use of PPPs. PPP enabling laws address such issues as the treatment of unsolicited PPP proposals,...