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Gouret, Fabian - EconWPA - 2004

In a framework similar to the models of expectation on economic policy, we purpose a model where the government subsidizes firms privatized by massive giveaways to the managers who are empire- builders. The government injects funds because its aim is to avoid a drastic fall of output when a...

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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways

Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...

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'The Role of Employee Ownership in Privatisation of State Enterprises in Eastern and Central Europe,' (1993) Europe-Asia Studies Vol.45, No.3, 463-481.

Bogetic, Zeljko - EconWPA - 2005

The article provides a fresh look at employee ownership as a method of privatization and discusses theoretical and …

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CAN FISCAL POLICY EXPLAIN TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY OF PRIVATISED FIRMS? A PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH

Alfano, Maria Rosaria; D'Orio, Giovanni - EconWPA - 2005

(Stochastic Frontier, Data Envelopment Analysis and Neural Network) are consistent. In fact, we see that privatization enhanced …

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Marco conceptual para delegar la responsabilidad y las funciones del gobierno al sector privado

Cohen, Steven - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 3 (2001) January-June, pp. 13-31

This document presents a conceptual framework and a method for deciding whether or not a function that was considered the responsibility of government should be performed by public organizations or devolved to private for-profit and non-profit organizations. This conceptual framework goes beyond...

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Economics of Road Network Ownership

Zhang, Lei; Levinson, David - Networks, Economics and Urban Systems Research Group … - 2006

This paper seeks to understand the economic impact of centralized and decentralized ownership structures and their corresponding pricing and investment strategies on transportation network performance and social welfare for travelers. In a decentralized network economic system, roads are owned...

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Factors explaining local privatization: A meta-regression analysis

Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2006

Privatization of local public services has been implemented worldwide in the last decades. Why local governments … explain local privatization. Such works have found a great diversity of motivations, and the variation among reported … privatization specially in the studies of US cases published in the eighties that consider a broad range of services. Studies that …

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Privatization and competition in the delivery of local services: An empirical examination of the dual market hypothesis

Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2008

low across all municipalities. Thus, it damages the likelihood of obtaining cost savings from privatization. …

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Comparison of Recent Toll Road Concession Transactions in the United States and France.

Bel, Germà; Foote, John - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2007

Recent concessions in France and in the US have resulted in a dramatic difference in the valuation placed on the toll roads; the price paid by the investors in France was twelve times current cash flow whereas investors paid sixty times current cash flow for the U.S. toll roads. In this paper we...

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Politiques publiques et “bonne gouvernance” en Tunisie

Laroussi, Houda - In: Mondes en développement n° 145 (2009) 1, pp. 93-108

This article proposes to show from an approach of the participative and local dimension, the adequacy of the Tunisian policy with the international intentions from the topic of the governance. We will show how the Tunisian State was registered in a step of good governance, by its redeployment...

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