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We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle … primary determinant of privatization policies. Privatization is a means to an end, of course, rather than an end in itself …. But we proceed under the assumption that policymakers have decided, for whatever reason, that privatization is a desirable …
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In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification … of the crowding-out effect, when the revenues of privatization are devoted to present public consumption. …
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In 1997, France Telecom, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. We adapt a …
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We examine the stock price reaction of rival firms to privatization announcements to infer information about industry … effects of privatization. We find that the rival firms reacted negatively to privatization announcements, thus suggesting that … find that the adverse reaction of the rival firms to privatization announcements in developing countries is stronger than …
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- 2000, extending existing empirical work, and more specifically work on the impact of privatization on public deficit, the … following: (i) Recent empirical work (by Jeronimo et al.) using data from 1990-1997 had examined whether privatization receipts … there is a negative and statistically significant relationship between receipts from privatization and deficit for the 1990 …
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discount at privatization IPOs than at private issues, and a positive relation between underpricing and the proportion of …
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Many comparisons of the performance of public and private producers use a public/private ownership dummy variable to capture cost differences in cross section data. This is appropriate if the producer choice is random. The dummy variable model is, however, logically inconsistent if the producer...
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This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and … development and, to a greater or lesser extent, privatization of stateowned assets. However, there is a great deal of … divided into two groups: one, including Algeria, Libya, and Syria, where reforms promoting privatization and private sector …
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As the 'Washington Consensus' reforms are losing momentum in Latin America, the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB) is calling for shifting the focus from the content of policy choices to the political process of their implementation. As this paper studies the paradigmatic case of...
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We provide a simple theoretical model to explain the mechanism whereby privatization of international airports can …
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