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Corneo, Giacomo; Rob, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We develop a theoretical framework for comparing the style of work in public and private enterprises. We incorporate ‘socializing’, as an activity that yields utility for workers and affects a firm’s output, into a simple multitask model of work organization. In contrast with previous...

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Privatization, Competition and Reform Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Russian Enterprise Panel Data

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A critical, but largely unexamined assumption in the debate over reform policy design, concerns the complementarity or substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that distinguishes two aspects of privatization...

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Privatization, Entry Regulation and the Decline of Labour's Share of GDP: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Network Industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

barriers to entry, which consistent with theory, dampens profit margins. …

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Privatization and Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care in Sweden

Bergman, Mats; Johansson, Per; Lundberg, Sofia; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Non-contractible quality dimensions are at risk of degradation when the provision of public services is privatized. However, privatization may increase quality by fostering performance-improving innovation, particularly if combined with increased competition. We assemble a large data set on...

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Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods

Besley, Timothy J.; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There has been a dramatic change in the division of responsibility between the state and the private sector for the delivery of public goods and services in recent years with an increasing trend towards contracting out to the private sector and ‘public-private partnerships’. This Paper...

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The Political Resource Curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …

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Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: Incentives, Separation and Voter Welfare

Hindricks, Jean; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper studies the relationship between fiscal decentralization and electoral accountability, by analysing how decentralization impacts upon incentive and selection effects, and thus on voter welfare. The model abstracts from features such as public good spillovers or economies of scale, so...

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Optimal Patronage

Drugov, Mikhail - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the design of promotions in an organization where agents belong to groups that advance their cause. Examples and applications include political groups, ethnicities, agents motivated by the work in the public sector and corruption. In an overlapping generations model, juniors compete for...

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Hospital competition with soft budgets

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effoort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...

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Complexity, Efficiency, and Fairness of Multi-Product Monopoly Pricing

Miravete, Eugenio J; Seim, Katja; Thurk, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits across the state and is legally mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to...

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