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Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Bolivia, 1990- 1998

Flexner, Nikolai - EconWPA - 2003

This paper employs ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation to examine the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the effect of FDI on per capita GDP growth in Bolivia over the period 1990:1-1998:4. The regression results find that the real effective multilateral exchange rate, the...

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Efficiency of Delhi International Airport Using Data Envelopment

Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004

domestic airports.The latter evidence favors privatization of the Delhi Airport. We study the impact of foreign direct … of professionalization in their day to day operations. The study also discusses various models of privatization and … Airports in India.Given the limitations in India’s airport infrastructure, a more suitable method of privatization seems to be …

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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

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Privatization in Africa: What has happened? What is to be done?

Nellis, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to …/manufacturing and most infrastructure still remains in state hands. Given prevailing public hostility towards privatization, and …

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The Evolution of Enterprise Reform in Africa: From State-owned Enterprises to Private Participation in Infrastructure — and Back?

Nellis, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

was largely abandoned by the IFIs and privatization and private participation in infrastructure, or PPI became the order …

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The Political Economy of Privatization: Why Do Governments Want Reforms?

Boerner, Kira - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …

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Privatization and Restructuring in Concentrated Markets

Norback, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes into account how much its own profit will increase....

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The effect of institutional factors on public–private partnership success in ports

Panayides, Photis M.; Parola, Francesco; Lam, Jasmine … - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 71 (2015) C, pp. 110-127

Port public–private partnerships (PPPs) are considered to be an important emerging mechanism for port development and improvement in port performance especially for developing countries. This paper empirically investigates the effect of institutional factors in the success of port’s PPPs;...

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Corruption in Privatization and Governance Regimes

Molinari, Maria Cristina - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2011

Government, a decentralized agency and a (private or public) manager. In a good governance regime the privatization can be …

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Improving performance in for-profit contracts: a study of buyer-seller communication and red tape

VOGES, Kathleen Welsh - In: Management & Marketing 9 (2014) 4

The use of for-profit contracts remains a popular privatization choice for public sector organizations in the United …

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