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Enhancing Income Convergence in Central Europe after EU Accession
Lenain, Patrick - 2004
After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession follows multiyear efforts of economic stabilisation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446298
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Institutions and the support for market reforms : a combination of individual self-interest and good institutions determines the level of public support for market reforms
Denisova, Irina - 2016
Economic self-interest and social considerations are the key determinants of public support for market reforms in transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have limited relevance if the prevailing institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471099
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A fair price for energy? : ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985907
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Governance by mutual benchmarking in postal markets : how state owned enterprises may induce private competitors to observe policy goals
Hettich, Peter - 2010
Congress recently has passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which leaves most elements of the current postal regulatory framework (postal monopoly, state owned enterprise) unaltered. Similar regulatory frameworks have been established in the U.S. and the European Community....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738339
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a Ppreliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2006
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747664
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2005
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095430
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Messages from a Cross-Level and the Internal Marketing (IM) Perspective to the Privatization Process
Sawagvudcharee, Ousanee; Buber, Renate; Young, Judith - 2012
particularities of a privatization process within a Thai state-owned enterprise (SOE), Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) in … marketing (IM) be applied in a Thai SOE to create a positive attitude to transformational change during the privatization of the …, and top management level. During the PEA’s privatization process there are informed sources and factors that positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167334
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The Different Extent of Privatisation Proceeds in EU Countries : A Preliminary Explanation Using a Public Choice Approach
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, … - 2021
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318271
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Capital Structure and Regulation : Does Ownership Matter?
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura; … - 2014
We construct a comprehensive panel data of 96 publicly traded European utilities over the period 1994-2005 in order to study the relationship between the capital structure of regulated firms, regulated prices, and investments, and examine if and how this interaction is affected by ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223408
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Privatization in Western Europe : Stylized Facts, Outcomes, and Open Issues
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Milella, Valentina - 2007
Privatization has certainly been one of the main events of the economic and financial history of the 20th century …. Between 1997 and 2004 more than 4,000 privatization operations were carried out in the world, bringing to governments revenues … factors. This paper investigates the causes of this process, summarizes the main trends of privatization activity at the …
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