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Does a change in the ownership of firms, from public to private, make a difference?
BERTERO, Elisabetta - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006
The economic impact of privatisation is hard to assess. This paper extends the analysis of Florio (2004) in four directions. It argues that a welfare assessment of privatisation must include an evaluation of the performance of public enterprises in light of their originally broad set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007183
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The Welfare Impact of a Privatization : The British Telecom Case-History
Florio, Massimo - 2003
In this paper we offer and discuss new evidence on the performance of British Telecom before and after privatisation. We use a unique dataset based on company accounts over forty years (1960-1999), and original additional company data on several variables. We focus particularly on output,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089737
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Explaining Public Enterprise Privatization in the EU : A European or British Policy? (La Privatización de Empresas Públicas en la UE: ¿La Vía Británica o la Senda Europea?) (Spanis...
Clifton, Judith - 2010
This article seeks to identify the reasons behind the privatization programmes undertaken by governments of the … European Union (EU), particularly, the EU 15. The privatization of public enterprises was one of the most important economic … bibliography on the topic. Despite this, there remains a lack of consensus on the reasons why governments implemented privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143121
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Essays on network industries : privatization, regulation, and productivity measurement
Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2007
subject of this study is the analysis of network industries with particular emphasis on privatization in this field in general … is threefold. The chapter on privatization is based on a theoretical model, followed by a chapter on the institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747619
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Chapter 21 Not-for-profit ownership and hospital behavior
Sloan, Frank A. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1141-1174). 2000
The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024184
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Privatization of Credence Goods: Theory and an Application to Residential Youth Care
Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
A wide range of services provided by the public sector are credence goods, i.e., services for which the producer has private information whether a certain treatment is needed or not. This paper studies how ownership affects the incentives for producers to reveal such information to public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419540
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Public Sector and Privatization in Russia in 2012
Malginov, Georgy; Radygin, Alexander - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2013
Russia’s Government has adopted no other privatization programs over the last two years, as it did in the 2000s, since … the Forecast Plan (Program) for the Federal Property and the Guidelines of Federal Property Privatization for 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693876
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PRIVATISATION IN RUSSIA: Hard Choice, First Results, New Targets
Radygin, Alexander - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2013
The privatisation wave that spread all over the world in the 1980s at last reached the shores of Russia in the 1990s and near the bastions of the administrative system it came to rest in a rather indecisive way. If in the 1980s the issue of privatisation was of real interest only for a narrow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739661
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The return of public enterprise
Florio, Massimo - Centre for Industrial Studies (CSIL) - 2014
Public enterprises never disappeared in spite of several privatization waves in the last three decades. This paper … and acquisitions confirms that in the last ten years there has been an increase of publicization relative to privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739818
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THE FUNDAMENTAL PRIVATIZATION THEOREM: IDEOLOGY, EVOLUTION, PRACTICE
Radygin, Alexander; Entov, Revold - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2014
form of ownership, and the corresponding estimation of privatization in the context of the advantages and disadvantages of … the public and private sectors of the national economy. Various interpretations of the fundamental privatization theorem … trends in Russia’s de-statization policy in 2010-2013 are analyzed in the context of ‘reluctant privatization’, with special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744653