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The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between privatization in higher education and the quality of … that there is a relationship between the privatization of universities and their quality, since countries with a high … relationship is due to empirical regularities between quality and ownership, or whether the two are unrelated. The analysis …
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effects, some other socio-economic determinants, ideological convictions, and possibly the perceived quality of the public …
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effects, some other socio-economic determinants, ideological convictions, and possibly the perceived quality of the public …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...
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improve welfare. The model consists of a downstream (airline) duopoly with two inputs landings at two airports) and two types …
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or foreign - firm competes with a public, welfare maximizing firm. We show that simultaneous play never emerges as a … for the emergence of public and/or private leadership equilibrium. In all cases, private profits and social welfare are …
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This paper reconsiders the literature on the irrelevance of privatization in mixed markets, addressing both quantity and price competition in a duopoly with differentiated products. By allowing for partially privatizing a state-controlled firm, we explore competition under different timings of...
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firms even if it does not include most market firms. Furthermore, it is proved that a merger can only be welfare improving …
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We investigate whether or not privatization is beneficial from the viewpoint of social welfare in a monopolistic … competition model. We discuss the relationship between the welfare effects of privatization and the degree of foreign direct … to improve welfare when the country depends on foreign capital in the private sector, whereas the opposite tendency …
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We show under general demand and cost conditions that in a mixed duopoly with pollution the government will implement the socially optimal outputs and abatements by a tax-subsidy scheme and keeping the public firm fully public. The scheme requires taxing outputs and subsidizing abatements at...
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