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This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Creating adoptions for children waiting in foster care is a good investment, but the number of adoptions created each year meets only a fraction of the need. This paper explores how the organization of the delivery of social services to waiting children and prospective adoptive families...
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by privatization processes in which no money was raised (though a surprising number of state-owned firms remain in these … regions). The vast majority of economic studies praise privatization’s positive impact at the level of the firm, as well as … its positive macroeconomic and welfare contributions. Moreover, contrary to popular conception, privatization has not …
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L'analyse des effets de la privatisation porte généralement sur des aspects microéconomiques. Néanmoins, lorsque la privatisation est massive, l'évaluation de l'impact macroéconomique présente un grand intérêt. Dans un environnment de crise économique chronique, la privatisation peut...
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. Corruption may be an important reason for the ineffciency of market reforms, such as privatization campaigns. The present paper …
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Using data on 451 Chinese privatizations over the period 1994-2002, this paper empirically investigates the firm and stock market characteristics that determine the size of the portion of new shares sold to the general public and underpricing at SIP-time. We find that poor performance and...
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In this paper we try to explain differences in the average price of domestic water supply services in Spain, paying special attention to the effects of privatisation of the service on price levels. We base our empirical analysis on the application of a `treatment effects' model on a sample of 53...
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incentive effects, rather than human capital effects, of privatization. More specifically, the authors argue that the success of …
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This paper presents a theory that explains the prevalence of different models of privatization across countries and … across industries. First, it establishes the analytical framework for determining the impact of privatization on the value of … carrying out privatization. Based on this framework, the paper offers an outline for testing the hypothesis that privatization …
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