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We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...
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Current research on cloud computing often focuses on the technology itself and the benefits that one company can use and choose from cloud services. Most of the research has focused on mainstream enterprises and limited regard to Central Banks' (CBs') Cloud Computing Adoption (CCA). CBs are...
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The privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOE) in transition economies has often been found to improve employment … enhanced if privatization also promotes firms’ exports. A recent firm-level analysis of China reveals that privatization has …
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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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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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Expenditures on job placement and related services make up a substantial share of many countries’ GDP. Contracting out to private providers is often proposed as a more efficient alternative to the state provision of placement services. However, the responsible state agency has to design and...
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This study investigates the impact of privatization on the relationship between gross capital accumulation, employment …. Employing econometric analysis and cointegration evaluation, the study reveals that privatization has had a mixed impact on CIS … economies. While privatization has contributed to increased capital accumulation and employment in some countries, it has also …
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investigates the role of hybrid debt in the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) via government-controlled investment … in Europe and Asia. Moreover, in some cases, the privatization of SOEs by means of exchangeables can prove to be a more … shareholders. Third, the entire privatization process tends to be more flexible for issuers in that they can perceive exchangeables …
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