Search Results - subject:"Voucher Privatization"

Public Housing, Housing Vouchers and Student Achievement : Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago

Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2021

There has been a substantial shift from public housing to voucher-based housing assistance over the past decade, largely in response to the rising cost of public housing and the high rates of crime, unemployment and school failure among public housing residents. Despite this shift, there is...

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Are some owners better than others in Czech privatized firms? : even meta-analysis can't make us perfectly sure

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen - 2017

We use a total of 1171 estimates extracted from 34 previous studies and perform a meta-analysis to examine the relationship between ownership structures and firm performance in the Czech mass-privatized firms. We find that, in contrast to the remarkable effect of foreign ownership on firm...

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Voucher Privatization : A Detour on the Road to Transition?

Katz, Barbara G.; Owen, Joel - 2023

We explore an overlooked aspect of the design of the Czech voucher privatization programme, namely, the consequences of … allowing individuals to distribute their vouchers among the voucher privatization funds (VPFs). We develop and analyse a model … of voucher privatization in which we study the problem facing individuals who invest their vouchers in VPFs which, in …

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Institutional investors in the Czech voucher privatisation

Šuterová, Magdalena - In: Danube : law and economics review 11 (2020) 4, pp. 343-354

Voucher privatisation that proceeded in the Czech Republic in the 1990s was a realisation of a unique experiment which resulted in the transfer of almost half of state-owned enterprises to private hands within two years. A substantial part of these private hands was represented by intermediaries...

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Are some owners better than others in Czech privatized firms? Even meta-analysis can't make us perfectly sure

Iwasaki, Ichiro; Kočenda, Evžen - 2017

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Voucher Privatization with Investment Funds : An Institutional Analysis

Ellerman, David P. - 2016

The most likely outcome of the strategy of voucher privatization with investment funds may be a two-sided grab fest by … been in favor of voucher privatization with investment finds, Ellerman can be seen as playing the devil's advocate, but his … regulators.One long-term consequence of voucher privatization with investment funds, according to this view, is a de facto …

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The Two Waves of Voucher Privatization in the Czech Republic : A Model of Learning in Sequential Bidding

Hanousek, Jan; Kroch, Eugene A. - 2014

This study develops a dynamic model of bidding behavior to investigate the Czech voucher privatization process, which …

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Privatizacija v sisteme finansovogo vzaimodejstvija gosudarstva i predprijatij

Belousova, Elena Stanislavovna - In: Belorusskij ėkonomičeskij žurnal : ežekvartalʹnyj … (2017) 3, pp. 137-147

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Are some owners better than others in Czech privatized firms? : even meta-analysis can't make us perfectly sure

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen - In: Economic systems 41 (2017) 4, pp. 537-568

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Privatization, international asset trade and financial markets

Girmens, Guillaume - 2002

This paper evaluates the impact of privatization on the development of capital markets in a two-country general equilibrium model. We draw particular attention to two divestment techniques, share issue privatizations (in developed market systems) and voucher privatizations (in transition...

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