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Privatization and Environmental Policy in a Mixed Oligopoly

Dong, Quang - 2019

This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...

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Performance Differential Between Private and State-Owned Enterprises : An Analysis of Profitability and Leverage

Phi, Nguyet Thi Minh - 2019

intensive and have higher labor costs. Thus, evidence from this study could be interpreted to mean that privatization could …

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The Objective of a Privately Owned Firm Under Imperfect Competition

Bejan, Camelia - 2014

This paper proposes a model of imperfect competition among privately owned ﬁrms that act in the best interest of their shareholders. The existence of a solution for the model is proved under weaker conditions than the ones generally used in the literature. In particular, the results did not...

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When Does Cash Matter? Evidence for Private Firms

Ehling, Paul - 2014

Using a database of more than 180,000 private companies from 2000 to 2009, we find that the benefits of holding more cash vary substantially with a firm's size and the conditions it faces. Cash holdings matter most for small firms: when there are negative shocks to industry or macroeconomic...

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Private Takings

Marchesiani, Alessandro - 2014

rights from landowners via bargaining, a holdout problem arises. Eminent domain gives all of the bargaining power to the … bargaining power and, as a result, their property investments become more inefficient. This is the cost of Kelo. A policy of … this occurs only if the developer has very little bargaining power. We propose an alternative government policy that …

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Balancing Public and Private Interests in Pay for Success Programs : Should We Care About the Private Benefit Doctrine?

Delany, Sean - 2018

In the rapidly expanding world of social impact finance, “pay for success” or “PFS” programs are increasingly popular vehicles for attracting private resources to address historically intractable social problems. Also known as “social impact bonds,” these programs are designed to...

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Partial privatization upstream with spatial price discrimination downstream

Heywood, John S.; Wang, Shiqiang; Ye, Guangliang - In: Review of industrial organization 59 (2021) 1, pp. 57-78

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Waste and the Governance of Private and Public Property

Righetti, Tara Kathleen; Schremmer, Joseph - 2021

which to evaluate evolutions in modern property theory. We argue here that waste doctrine is more than just an historical …

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Public and Private Information Channels along Supply Chains : Evidence from Contractual Private Forecasts

Bushee, Brian J.; Kim-Gina, Jessica; Leung, Edith - 2021

Firms along the supply chain rely on both public disclosures and private information exchanges to develop forecasts about future performance. In this paper, we examine how a firm’s public and private channels of information sharing with its trading partners affect information spillovers along...

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Behavior-based price discrimination in the domestic and international mixed duopoly

Okuyama, Suzuka - 2022

improves domestic social welfare, as it allows the public firm to lower its poaching price. In both cases, privatization is …

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