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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...
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Privatization promotes economic efficiency and growth, thereby reinforcing macroeconomic adjustment. In the short run … impacts and the fiscal implications of privatization. It then reviews various methods of privatization and finds that public …` options for mitigating the social impact of privatization are surveyed, and experiences under adjustment programs reviewed …
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This paper reviews a selection of studies on privatization experiences in transition countries. Empirical studies … is reviewed, along with the question of whether privatization efforts support or hinder de novo private sector …
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We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on … sales to foreign and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although …
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This paper deals with main feature of Russia's public sector, privatization plan and changes in the legistation which …
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A common argument against privatization is that private providers will self-interestedly lobby to increase the size of … their market. In this Article, I evaluate this argument, using, as a case study, the argument against prison privatization … conclude that there is at present no particular reason to credit this argument. Even without privatization, actors in the …
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India’s recently announced privatization strategy can facilitate a change in the composition of the public sector … description of the SOE sector in India, consider different criteria which can inform the scope and rationale for privatization. It … also highlights takeaways from international experience with privatization, highlights the importance of improved …
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I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...
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property rights system within privatization process in the conditions of transitional economy in Russia and its single regions … (on the basis of evaluation of privatization models of the ‘90s), the identification of the crucial challenges of …
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