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We empirically investigate the political determinants of liberalization and privatization policies in six network … industries of 30 OECD countries (1975–2007). We unbundle liberalization and privatization reforms and study their simultaneous … common trend under the so-called neo-liberalism wave. However, although the privatization rate is higher than liberalization …
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We investigate the connection between privatization in post-communist Russia and a mass privatization reform in … Stolypin reform to contemporary views on whether the privatization of the 1990s should be revised. These historical measures … could influence contemporary views in two ways: first, differences in privatization-related conflicts in the past could have …
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We study the relation between state ownership and cash holdings in China’s share-issue privatized firms from 2000 to 2012. We find that the level of cash holdings increases as state ownership declines. For the average firm in our sample, a 10 percentage-point decline in state ownership leads...
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This paper examines key aspects of the policies promoting the expansion of private multinational monopolies as the main tool to solve the problems affecting water and sanitation services in less developed countries. It is based on recent findings from research carried out on the impact of these...
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We investigate whether or not privatization is beneficial from the viewpoint of social welfare in a monopolistic … competition model. We discuss the relationship between the welfare effects of privatization and the degree of foreign direct … and Central and Eastern European countries. We find that, in the long run, privatization of a public firm is more likely …
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than the simple privatization of companies. This leaves room for exploration and implementation of policies that might …
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