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Privatization: Does Reality Match the Rhetoric?

King, S.P. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This lecture presents some of the lessons from formal research on ownership and privatization. In many cases, these … lessons differ significantly from the rhetoric of privatization. Further experience with privatization, particularly in …

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The Impact on Farmers of Privatizing Parastatal Agricultural Monopsonies

Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 3 (2007) 2, pp. 1074-1074

International Financial Institutions have advocated the privatization of integrated agricultural monopsonies in … model, this paper shows however that the impact of privatization and contract farming may not be positive for all farmers. …

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Saving Social Security: The Diamond-Orszag Plan

Diamond, Peter; Orszag, Peter - In: The Economists' Voice 2 (2007) 1, pp. 8-8

Social Security is one of America's most successful government programs. It has helped millions of Americans avoid poverty in old age. To be sure, the program faces a long-term deficit and is in need of updating. But Social Security's long-term financial health can be restored: the projected...

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What Was Behind the Delay in the Bulgarian Privatization Process? : Determining Incentives and Barriers of Privatization as a Way of Foreign Entry

BITZENIS, ARISTIDIS - In: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 39 (2003) 5, pp. 58-82

It is conventionally thought that to develop competition in a transition economy, privatization, restructuring, and … privatization reform, and the pace of this reform, are sufficient to promote competition in such a market. To answer this question … participation in the Bulgarian privatization programs. This paper investigates those questions on the basis of survey data. It was …

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The Fiscal Consequences of Privatisation: Australian Evidence.

Harris, M.; Lye, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

Privatisation has become a common governement policy in many countries. This paper summarizes the salient features of privatisations by public share float in Australia during the period 1989 to 1997. The costs associated with these privatisations is examined, including both direct costs and the...

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On Optimal Privatisation.

Sasaki, D.; Wen, M. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper shows the possibility that, under certain conditions, it can be socially optimal for the public firm not to privatise its whole production capacity but to retain a part of it, even when private operation of the production facilities is strictly more cost-efficient than public operation.

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The Effects of Social Security Privatization on Household Saving: Evidence from Chile

Coronado, Julia - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 1 (2002) 1, pp. 1033-1033

-as-you-go (PAYGO) to partial or full funding. Privatization is viewed as one way to insulate social security from the political and … demographic pressures that currently threaten the financial stability of PAYGO systems. However, privatization would improve a …

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Cost Recovery, Efficiency, and Economic Organization for Water Utilities

Loehman, Edna - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1232-1232

This paper describes a new method of utility pricing - Variable Unit Pricing (VUP) - that results in both economic efficiency and cost recovery for a variety of supply situations faced by water utilities. The main advantage of VUP - compared to Increasing Block Rates - is that its parameters can...

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Evaluating the Demsetzian Trend in Copyright Law

Frischmann, Brett - In: Review of Law & Economics 3 (2007) 3, pp. 2-2

normative arguments for continued privatization and propertization of intellectual resources. First, I focus on the perceived …

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Privatization between Professionism and Transparency

Lefter, Viorel - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 3(498) (2006) 3(498), pp. 63-68

Privatization has become a truly global process which varies significantly from one country to another. The real test … for the privatization experts is to take into account not only the international best practice but also the local cultural … and economic conditions. In the field of public utilities, France pioneered the system of privatization by contracting …

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