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We study the relative efficiency of outside-owned versus employee-owned firms and analyze implications for institutional change in a context of technological innovation. When decisions are made through majority voting, the vote on technology choice is used to influence the later vote on the...
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Using a novel data set with bank-sector-level annual loan data from 137 commercial banks in China from 2004 to 2021 and a quantified industrial policy data set based on text analysis, this paper explores the effects of industrial policy on bank credit provision. While the paper finds no...
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This paper investigates the role that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) played during periods of economic sanctions against Iran. Using difference-in-difference techniques and exploiting survey data on the manufacturing sector, our analysis shows that the sanctions reduced revenues, profits, and...
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India's recently announced privatization strategy can facilitate a change in the composition of the public sector … description of the SOE sector in India, consider different criteria which can inform the scope and rationale for privatization. It … also highlights takeaways from international experience with privatization, highlights the importance of improved …
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One consequence of interest rates remaining 'too low for too long' since the Global Financial Crisis is the buildup in private leverage in emerging economies. These vulnerabilities have been laid bare by the COVID-19 shock. This paper employs the growth at risk framework (Adrian, Boyarchenko,...
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liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly 'no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational f …
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pension liabilities during the reform's transition period, a pension privatization reform may transform IPD int …
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This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
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, foreign holdings are greatly associated with increased yield volatility. A case study using Poland data elaborates on the …
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onset of the 2008 global financial crisis - the Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania. It finds that the evaluation …
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