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privatization discourse. It illustrates that, when proposed policy reforms get rough and the opposition grows, governments …
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-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data … on several network industries and find that privatization can account for a significant proportion of the fall of labor …
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just its scope. Labor also plays a critical role in tempering performance in critical junctures of the privatization cycle … privatization. …
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privatization discourse. It illustrates that, when proposed policy reforms get rough and the opposition grows, governments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686650
The authors examine how well several institutional and firm-level factors and their interactions explain firms'perceptions of property rights protection. Their sample includes private and public firms that vary in size from very small to large in 62 countries. Together, the institutional...
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development. These reforms included stock market liberalization, privatization programs, and the establishment of regulatory and …
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The existing literature emphasizes and contrasts the role of political checks and balances and legal origin in determining the pace of financial sector development. This paper expands substantially on one aspect of this debate: the fact that government actions that promote financial sector...
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The authors explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. The authors exploit a unique dataset comprising firm-level information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development and transition...
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under-priced, and making it difficult to expand services. The report indicates that although privatization, competitive … privatization to generate widely shared social benefits, infrastructure industries must be thoroughly restructured and able to … sustain competition. Thus restructuring, to introduce competition should be done before privatization, and regulation should …
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