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The for-profit hospital is in the minority numerically in all developed countries. Although the for-profits' market share has been quite stable for decades, for-profit chains have grown in share and influence in the United States. By contrast, for-profit chains have made few inroads in other...
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We examine the links between ownership and internal control for a sample of 112 state-owned, privatized, and publicly traded firms in the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1994. Privatized firms with at least four years in the private sector, like established publicly traded firms, exhibit a...
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This paper examines the determinants of wage pressure in large companies, including ownership characteristics and the impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997-2001, we find evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also...
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Economic growth is below what would be needed to resume rapid convergence to average OECD living standards. On-going efforts to improve the business climate are laudable, but need to be widened and strengthened. Much progress has been achieved in reducing red tape, but it is only recently that...
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Finland s state-enterprise sector has been larger than in most countries and included several manufacturing companies. These were usually established because of a scarcity of private venture capital, with a mission to contribute to industrialisation. Some companies have now been privatised in a...
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This paper deals with main feature of Russia's public sector, privatization plan and changes in the legistation which …
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This paper examines a different way of privatization from existing literature. In a mixed duopoly Hotelling type model … privatization always improves social welfare comparing to no privatization at all. And comparing to privatizing the public firm in …
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The core events which took place last year and which are related to the issues under consideration are the approval of a new three year privatisation programme for 2014-2016, including corporate control of market transactions associated with Rosneft and Gazprom, as well as the restructuring of...
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This paper is the first to investigate an alternative approach of privatization: privatizing only a subsidiary of a … portion of the firm's stocks to private investors (entirety privatization), we consider only a subsidiary of the public firm … is privatized (subsidiary privatization). We find that subsidiary privatization not only improves social welfare …
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This paper is an attempt to evaluate the application of Corporate Governance framework issue within Public domain. It is an attempt to quantify the compliance of Greek companies with international best practices
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