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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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distinguishes two aspects of privatization interacting with market opening: privatization of a firm and privatization of its …
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-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … labour 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 labour …
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This Paper presents new data, in the form of several indices, on liberalization policies and the independence of … liberalization policies are negatively associated with the degree to which countries have an interventionist tradition, but not with …
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This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization … intermediate suppliers and investors have also clearly benefited during the short privatization duration. However the paper also …
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varies across regions. We study the effects of privatization, the importance of different types of owners, the effects of …
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Using panel data of 19 developed economies in the period 1985-2000, we show that share issue privatization (SIP …
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The government wants a certain good or service to be provided. Should the required assets be publicly or privately owned or should a partnership be formed? Building on the incomplete contracting approach, we argue that the initially specified quantity of an ex ante describable basic good can...
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This paper explores the use of auctions for privatizing public assets. In our model, a single ‘insider’ bidder (e.g. incumbent management of a government-owned firm) possesses information about the asset’s risky value. In addition, bidders are privately informed about their costs of...
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privatization, but most respondents prefer to leave firms in private hands. We examine who wants to revise privatization and why …. Respondents with poor human capital and few assets support revising privatization due to a preference for state over private … property. Economic hardships during transition increase support for revising privatization due to the perceived unfairness of …
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