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Recent Claims of China's Economic Exceptionalism: Reflections Inspired by WTO Accession
Woo, Wing Thye - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2003
The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China''s particular economic circumstances, or have been the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620416
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Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism: Reflections inspired by WTO accession
Woo, Wing Thye - 2001
The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China''s particular economic circumstances, or have been the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318608
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The unfinished business of state-owned enterprise reform in the People's Republic of China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2019
This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE profitability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026451
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Methods of privatization and economic growth in transition economies
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Urga, Giovanni - 2006
1990 to 2003. The estimating equation is augmented with country- and time-specific variables for methods of privatization … and other factors potentially relevant to growth in transition economies. It is found that 'mass privatization' is … associated with faster growth, but the other privatization methods have no significant impact. The findings suggest that in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470765
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Technical efficiency of organic fertilizer in small farms of Nicaragua: 1998-2005
Gonzalez, Zuniga; Alberto, Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article applies frontier production function analysis to small farms in Nicaragua during 1998-2005 (Battese and Coelli, 1988). The objective of this study is to estimate an average function that will provide a picture for the shape of the organic fertilizer technology of an average firm (in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111679
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Does autonomy matter in state owned enterprises? Evidence from performance contracts in India
Gunasekar, Sangeetha; Sarkar, Jayati - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2014
autonomy being a preferred reform instrument in many countries, and of ten chosen over privatization. Using longitudinal data … partial privatization for a subset of enterprises, a unique contribution of the study lies in investigating whether ownership … divestiture through partial privatization has any effect once enterprises are imparted managerial autonomy, or whether ownership …
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The Size and Sectorial Distribution of State-Owned Enterprises : Towards a Global View of the Landscape
Zhang, Chunlin - 2023
This paper contributes to the development of a global view of the landscape of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). It focuses on three specific questions: the size of the SOE sector in national economies as measured by its share in output or employment; the economic sectors in which the role of SOEs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255932
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Corporate efficiency in Europe
Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - 2015
Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less...
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Corporatisation and Corporate Governance in China’s Economic Transition
Lin, Cyril - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
China has sought to improve enterprise performance not through privatisation as in other transition economies, but through corporatisation as means of improving corporate governance. Actual governance practices of corporatised Chinese firms are however seriously defective, characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146235
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Impact of ChinaÂ’s WTO Accession on Farm-Nonfarm Income Inequality and Rural Poverty
Anderson, Kym; Huang, Jikun; Ianchovichina, Elena - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2002
Many fear ChinaÂ’s accession to WTO will impoverish its rural people, via greater import competition in its agricultural markets. We explore that possibility bearing in mind that, even if producer prices of some (land-intensive) farm products fall, prices of other (labour-intensive) farm...
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