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Privatisations as price reforms: Evaluating consumers' welfare changes in the UK
Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2002
This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The … approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform … privatised public utilities. We conclude that the contribution to consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy in the UK, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335730
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Privatisations as price reforms : evaluating consumers' welfare changes in the UK
Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2002
This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The … approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform … privatised public utilities. We conclude that the contribution to consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy in the UK, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597634
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Privatisations as price reforms : evaluating consumers' welfare changes in the UK
Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001710441
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Privatisations as Price Reforms : Evaluating Consumers' Welfare Changes in the UK
Brau, Rinaldo; Florio, Massimo - 2011
This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The … approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the policy reform theory … privatised public utilities. We conclude that the contribution to consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy in the UK, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014107554
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The Impact of Privatization on Customers' Satisfaction in Service and Communications Offices of Tabriz
Jaberi, Nasim - 2015
Governments in recent decades perform privatization to receive to high efficiency and economic growth, entrepreneurship, customers' satisfaction and implement decentralization policy. So, establishing service and communications offices in Iran has been mentioned in order to achieve these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026829
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Beyond GDP and back: What is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274684
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Subjective Questions to Measure Welfare and Well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504926
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Science and ideology in economic, political and social thought
Hillinger, Claude - 2007
This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295251
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Science and Ideology in Economic, Political and Social Thought
Hillinger, Claude - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-2, pp. 1-70
This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295300
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Subjective Questions to Measure Welfare and Well-being
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
This paper provides arguments in favor of using subjective questions as a proxy to measure welfare and well-being. This approach makes it possible to avoid having to define welfare and well-being means and having to identify the relevant indicators. Instead, individuals themselves define their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324942