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Privatization in Austria : some theoretical reasons and performance measures

Belke, Ansgar; Schneider, Friedrich - 2004

The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …

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Privatization in Austria : some theoretical reasons and performance measures

Belke, Ansgar; Schneider, Friedrich - 2004

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Privatization in Austria: Some theoretical reasons and performance measures

Schneider, Friedrich; Belke, Ansgar - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004

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The different extent of privatization proceeds in OECD countries : a preliminary explanation using a public-choice approach

Belke, Ansgar; Baumgartner, Frank R.; Schneider, Friedrich - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 63 (2007) 2, pp. 211-243

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Privatisation around the world : new evidence from panel data

Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fantini, Marcella; Siniscalco, … - 2001

This paper presents new evidence about privatisation processes and their determinants from a panel of 34 countries over the 1977-99 period. The empirical analysis shows that privatisation takes place typically in wealthy and democratic countries, endowed with deep and liquid stock markets, and...

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Delayed Privatization

Pinotti, Paolo; Bortolotti, Bernardo - 2008

This paper studies the timing of privatization in 21 major developed economies in the 1977-2002 period. Duration …: privatization is delayed longer in democracies characterized by a larger number of parties and operating under proportional …

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Privatisation Around the World : New Evidence from Panel Data

Siniscalco, Domenico; Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fantini, … - 2013

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Economic, political and institutional determinants of budget deficits in the European Union

Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009

Using an extended data set of EU countries ranging from 1971-2006 and relevant econometric methods, we investigate the economic, political, and institutional determinants of government deficits in the EU. The results show a strong opportunistic behaviour of policymakers which leads to political...

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Partisan fiscal policy : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Schneider, Ondřej - 2019

This paper examines effects of political ideology of a governing party on fiscal outcomes, using data from eight Central and Eastern European countries in the 2001-2017 period. The analysis shows that there is a statistically significant effect of conservative governments on fiscal variables,...

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Government Contracting and the Threat of Re-Election

Seamans, Robert - 2015

Incumbent politicians may worry about their chances of re-election. Re-election concerns may induce incumbents to write contracts that have low power incentives (LPI) instead of high power incentives (HPI). This may result in inefficient outcomes in cases where high power incentives are...

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