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Beni di cittadinanza e beni privati: una riflessione sui servizi pubblici ed il progetto europeo
FLORIO, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007
In this paper I propose a definition of 'Citizenship goods'. Standard microeconomics distinguishes between purely private, purely public and mixed goods, based on the degree of non-rivalry and excludability. This is however a definition based on technical features of the goods that fails to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007309
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Conceptual issues in assessing the welfare impact of the British privatisation programme
LEAPE, Jonathan - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006
Assessing the welfare impact of a policy on the scale of the British privatisation programme is a daunting task. Four sets of issues raised in the impressive study by Florio et al of the British privatisation programme merit further discussion. One such set of issues relates to the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007455
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2008
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030688
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gehlbach, Scott - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2008
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187394
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Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks
Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The government wants a certain good or service to be provided. Should the required assets be publicly or privately owned or should a partnership be formed? Building on the incomplete contracting approach, we argue that the initially specified quantity of an ex ante describable basic good can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497777
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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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Will Privatization Reduce Costs?
Lindqvist, Erik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423776
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Will Privatization Reduce Costs?
Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645363
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Innovation in State-owned Enterprises: Reconsidering the Conventional Wisdom
Belloc, Filippo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
simple privatization of companies. This leaves room for exploration and implementation of policies that might reconcile State …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110509
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International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999
Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.; Guillen, Mauro F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784793