Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. The implication of this research for investment in a particular form of extra police services, those provided by private institutions, has not been rigorously examined. We capitalize on the discontinuity in police force size at the geographic...

After 15 years eradication of the private health sector in Socialist China, private practice was restored in 1980 along with the market oriented economic reform. In recent years, however, debates on its pros and cons are increasing. Arguments against private practice have led to a ban on private...

1. Introduction / Christoph Hermann and Jorg Flecker -- 2. The process of liberalisation, privatisation and marketisation / Christoph Hermann and Koen Verhoest -- 3. Concentration and disintegration : company responses in the electricity sector and consequences for employment / Christoph Hermann...