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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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Private sector development in the South and East Mediterranean region
Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012
This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and … development and, to a greater or lesser extent, privatization of stateowned assets. However, there is a great deal of … divided into two groups: one, including Algeria, Libya, and Syria, where reforms promoting privatization and private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326585
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Will privatization reduce costs?
Lindqvist, Erik - 2007
I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281289
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Will Privatization Reduce Costs?
Lindqvist, Erik - 2008
I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320112
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Privatization of Credence Goods: Theory and an Application to Residential Youth Care
Lindqvist, Erik - 2008
A wide range of services provided by the public sector are credence goods, i.e., services for which the producer has private information whether a certain treatment is needed or not. This paper studies how ownership affects the incentives for producers to reveal such information to public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320219
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Ownership and Production Costs - Choosing Between Public Production and Contracting Out
Ohlsson, Henry - 1998
Many comparisons of the performance of public and private producers use a public/private ownership dummy variable to capture cost differences in cross section data. This is appropriate if the producer choice is random. The dummy variable model is, however, logically inconsistent if the producer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321722
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Privatization Methods and Productivity Effects in Romanian Industrial Enterprises
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2002
Comprehensive panel data on privatization transactions and labor productivity in Romanian industrial corporations are … used to describe the post-privatization ownership structure, and to estimate the effect of Romania's diverse privatization … transfers and mass privatization are estimated to have significantly smaller-although still positive-effects on firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763244
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Privatisation and public ownership in Finland
Willner, Johan - 2003
Finland s state-enterprise sector has been larger than in most countries and included several manufacturing companies. These were usually established because of a scarcity of private venture capital, with a mission to contribute to industrialisation. Some companies have now been privatised in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509381
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Improving the business climate in Russia
Radziwill, Artur; Vaziakova, Yana - 2015
Economic growth is below what would be needed to resume rapid convergence to average OECD living standards. On-going efforts to improve the business climate are laudable, but need to be widened and strengthened. Much progress has been achieved in reducing red tape, but it is only recently that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392847
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Ownership and production costs : choosing between public production and contracting out
Ohlsson, Henry - 2003
Many comparisons of the performance of public and private producers use a public/private ownership dummy variable to capture cost differences in cross section data. This is appropriate if the producer choice is random. The dummy variable model is, however, logically inconsistent if the producer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586275