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Rethinking the economic borders of the state ownership, assets, and competition
Helm, Dieter - In: Oxford review of economic policy 31 (2015) 2, pp. 168-185
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Italian state-owned enterprises after decades of reforms : still public?
Clò, Stefano; Di Giulio, Marco; Galanti, Maria Tullia; … - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432120
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Political economy of Nigerian power sector reform
Ogunleye, Eric Kehinde - 2016
in significant progress that includes unbundling and privatization of the long-standing government-owned monopoly in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440968
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Water privatization, ethnicity and rent-seeking : preliminary evidence from Malaysia
Tan, Jeff - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 32 (2015) 3, pp. 297-318
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Relationship between trade liberalization and agricultural development in Iran's economy
Safdari, Mehdi - In: Journal of international economic review 8 (2015) 1, pp. 85-91
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Privatising public housing redevelopment : grassroots resistance, co-operation and devastation in three Dublin neighbourhoods
Norris, Michelle; Hearne, Rory - 2016
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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues
Goldstein, Andrea - 2003
This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …
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Voter support for privatizing education : evidence on self-interest and ideology
Merzyn, Wolfram; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2003
Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these arguments influence voters opinions. We analyze two popular referenda in which some 400,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508114
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The impact of privatization on efficiency and profitability : evidence from Chinese listed firms, 2001-2010
Shi, Wendong; Sun, Jingwei - In: The economics of transition 24 (2016) 3, pp. 393-420
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Public or private job placement services : are private ones more effective? ; analyzed public employment agencies were at least equally as successful as private ones in placing une...
Stephan, Gesine - 2016
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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