The objective of this paper is to critique the modernization of an essential public service - Air Navigation Services (ANS) - since the early 1980s. The paper focuses on the changes to the financial management and accountability regimes of four Anglo-American ANS providers.Frederickson and Smith...

This paper investigates the performance of private equity partnerships using a data set of individual fund returns collected by Venture Economics. Over the sample period, average fund returns net of fees approximately equal the S&P 500 although there is a large degree of heterogeneity among fund...