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Electricity Reforms in Mali: A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation model to explore the distributional and poverty-related effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Mali, a poor country in West Africa. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in...

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The Impact on Farmers of the Privatization of Integrated Agricultural Monopsonies

Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2001

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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Private Control, Competion, and the Performance of Telephone Firms in Less Developed Countries

Viani, Bruno - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 11 (2004) 2, pp. 217-240

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Market Preemption and Entry Deterrence: Evidence from the Golf Course Industry

Shmanske, Stephen - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 11 (2004) 1, pp. 55-68

The population in a given geographical area has to be large enough before the area can support the entry of a golf course. The required amount of population will be higher if costs are higher, or if the underlying demand to golf by residents is lower, or if there is more preexisting competition...

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Control Changes and Firm Performance in Banking

Delfino, Maria Eugenia - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 14 (2007) 2, pp. 261-281

privatization, foreign acquisition of domestic banks and mergers and acquisitions among local institutions. Bank productivity is … privatization had a positive short-term effect on productivity in part as a result of efficiency gains, which were then gradually …

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Beyond Privatization. The second Wage of telecommunications reforms in Mexico.

Wellenius, B.; Staple, G. - World Bank Group - 1996

From 1989 to 1994 the government of Mexico carried out a major restructuring of the telecommunications sector. Telefonos Mexico was privatized, and cellur, value-added and private networks and services were liberalized. In late 1994 the government moved toward further opening up the market, this...

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Privatization, Competition and Reform Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Russian Enterprise Panel Data

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

distinguishes two aspects of privatization interacting with market opening: privatization of a firm and privatization of its …

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Privatization and Foreign Competition

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper determines the equilibrium market structure in a mixed international oligopoly, where the state enterprise's assets are sold at an auction. The model suggests that low greenfield costs and low trade costs induce foreign acquisitions. The intuition is that domestic firms can then not...

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Privatization, Entry Regulation and the Decline of Labour's Share of GDP: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Network Industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … labour share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data … on several network industries and find that privatization can account for a significant proportion of the fall of labour …

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How well do institutional theories explain firms'perceptions of property rights?

Ayyagari, Meghana; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, Vojislav - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

The authors examine how well several institutional and firm-level factors and their interactions explain firms'perceptions of property rights protection. Their sample includes private and public firms that vary in size from very small to large in 62 countries. Together, the institutional...

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