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Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik; Josephson, Jens - 2019

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...

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Restructuring Through FDI in Romanian Manufacturing

Hunya, Gabor - 2002

Romania has experienced a drawn-out transformation process and received relatively low amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI). But it has become competitive in labour-intensive manufacturing industries through the integration into European company networks by processing trade. The country...

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Privatization Disputes in Romania – the Petrom Case

Hunya, Gabor - 2007

In 2004 the Austrian-based OMV acquired in a privatization process 51% of the Romanian national oil company Petrom. Two … and a half years later this privatization is again in the focus of political attention in Romania. The current government …. The whole issue of privatization is on the agenda. This paper investigates the privatization of Petrom in its historical …

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Privatization and Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care in Sweden

Spagnolo, Giancarlo; Bergman, Mats A.; Lundberg, Sofia - 2012

Many quality dimensions are hard to contract upon and are at risk of degradation when services are procured rather than produced in-house. However, procurement may foster performance-improving innovation. We assemble a large data set on elderly care services in Sweden between 1990 and 2009,...

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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings

Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

positive effects, and the effects of domestic privatization tend to be larger in countries with a more competitive business …

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Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard? Analyzing Firm-Level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure

Hagemeier, Jan; Svejnar, Jan; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … non-rush privatization. The negative effect of rushed privatization on the scale of operations and employment is even … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

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Development paths: A case for public investment as the alternative to the Washington Consensus

Lauka, Earta - 2018

This paper's aim is to provide a different standpoint in the development debate, by focusing on the short-sightedness of the international institutions when they propose a development agenda. Focusing on macroeconomic performance and on privatisation, they have found a solution in PPPs, which...

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Effects of privatization on price and labor efficiency: The Swedish electricity distribution sector

Lundin, Erik - 2016

I examine the effects of privatization, in the form of acquisitions, in the Swedish electricity distribution sector. As … by increased economies of scale, questioning the causal effect of privatization per se. …

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What is the cost of privatization for workers?

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2018

The world is in the midst of a new wave of privatization, with record dollar amounts raised in both developed and … for society, only if they took place during recessions. These results shed new light on the welfare costs of privatization …

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Telemedicine and the welfare state: The Swedish experience

Blix, Mårten; Jeansson, Johanna - 2018

We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...

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