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Competition Policy, Liberalization, Privatization And Regulations: This paper was developed to outline the issues and to help clarify the different perspectives on competition policy, liberalization, privatization and regulations. The paper primarily deals with competition policy, liberalization and privatization in the telecoms sector given that this is the most relevant area of these policies or models to...; Tags: Free trade, liberalization, privatization, Information and Communication Technology, regulation; White papers
Empowerment in the Context of Transformational Change: A Study of Acquisitions and Privatizations in Eastern Europe: This paper examines conditions under which empowerment (decision autonomy, dialogic leadership) is connected with positive and negative effects, respectively, in regard to managing transformational change in Eastern Europe. Acquisitions by foreign investors in Poland and Russia (N = 45 companies) and privatizations through employee buy-out in Romania (N = 5...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, AllBusiness.com, empowerment, privatization, Eastern Europe, crisis management, acquisition, leadership; White papers
Utilities Reforms And Corruption In Developing Countries: This paper shows empirically that "Privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected effects on access, affordability, or quality of services. It also shows that corruption leads to adjustments in the quantity, quality, and price...; Tags: Regulations, City University, privatization, affordability, regulator, developing country, QoS, adjustment, telecommunications; White papers 2007-03-29
Privatization And Entries Of Foreign Enterprise In A Differentiated Industry: This paper investigates whether or not privatization I beneficial from the viewpoint of social welfare in a monopolistic competition model. The relationship between the welfare effects of privatization and the degree of foreign direct investment in the private sector is discussed, which is an important problem in developing countries and...; Tags: privatization, welfare, foreign direct investment, developing country, industry; White papers 2007-01-09
Does Privatizing Social Security Produce Efficiency Gains?: The current Social Security system - provides insurance against uncertain life spans and working ability shocks; - generates labor market distortions induced by the payroll tax. Privatization of Social Security could lead to efficiency gains or losses. This paper quantitatively analyzes the macroeconomic and efficiency effects of Social Security privatization...; Tags: Operational accounting, Georgia State University, Social Security, privatization, payroll, insurance; White papers 2006-05-01

Balance Of Privatisation Policies Related To Foreign Direct Investment: Foreign privatization is a special form of acquisition in which strategic investors assume control of part or all of the equity of a State-owned company in the host country. As a result of the mass privatization taking place in the Central and Eastern European countries CEECs, foreign privatization accounted for...; Tags: Privatization, Investor, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2005-06-28
Efficiency And Network Expansion In The Telecommunications Sector: A Study Of The Asian Experience: This paper considers the potential impact of privatization and the existence of an autonomous regulatory body on outcomes in the telecommunications sector. Previous studies suggest that privatization leads to greater efficiency and network expansion; however, the evidence is not conclusive and some authors have found no positive results from privatization....; Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, privatization, telecommunications, network, industry; White papers 2005-06-07
Privatizing a Government Sponsored Enterprise: Lessons From the Sallie Mae Experience: This paper will describe the rationale for privatization, the constraints to the process, the reorganization structure and the effect of privatization on Sallie Mae and the student loan market. The key elements of the privatization process and structure will be highlighted with comments offered on the applicability to Housing Government...; Tags: University of Pennsylvania, privatization; White papers 2005-05-31
Local Complications of Global Economic Integration: Privatisation Receipts and Volatile Export Earnings: This paper discusses two complications for domestic monetary policy stemming from greater international integration of the emerging market economies: privatization-related capital inflows and large swings in export earnings. It discusses why foreign exchange inflows from privatization receipts and large swings in export earnings differ from other capital inflows, and why...; Tags: Financial accounting, Bank for International Settlements, inflow, privatization, complication, swing, earnings, foreign-exchange, emerging market; White papers 2005-06-03
Foreign Direct Investment And Privatization: This paper examines whether privatization is a determinant of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in a sample of countries drawn from two regions: Asia and Latin America, where privatization and FDI penetration have been intense. Using annual data for 1990-99 for eight Asian and nine Latin American and Caribbean countries, a...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, foreign direct investment, privatization; White papers 2005-03-01
State-Owned Banks, Stability, Privatization, and Growth: Practical Policy Decisions in a World Without Empirical Proof: This paper provides an overview of the possible linkages between state-owned banks, privatization, and banking sector crises. Data on privatizations in over 65 countries is used together with data from the banking crisis literature to consider the relationship between state-owned banks and financial sector stability. The paper draws on the...; Tags: Financial services, IMF, privatization, bank; White papers 2005-01-01
Does Privatization Raise Productivity?: This paper analyzes the impact of privatization on MultiFactor Productivity MFP using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. The positive effects emerge within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue to grow thereafter, but are still ambiguous even after...; Tags: privatization, manufacturing; White papers 2004-12-01
Mixed Oligopoly, Subsidization And The Order Of Firm's Moves: The Relevance Of Privatization: A series of previous papers demonstrate that there are no consequences from privatization in a mixed oligopoly when the government uses a subsidy to ensure first best. This conclusion depends upon the assumption that privatization results in a simultaneous move oligopoly. If instead privatization results in a public leader becoming...; Tags: Leadership, privatization, oligopoly, subsidy, leader; White papers 2003-12-04
Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation And Economic Reforms In The Post-Soviet Transition: How do economic reforms affect patterns of resource reallocation and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and import competition in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing annual industrial census data from 1985 to...; Tags: liberalization; White papers 2003-07-01
The Battle Over Restructuring Social Security In The United States: This paper examines the efforts to privatize the Social Security system in the United States. The first section outlines the basic economics of the program and examines the extent to which it faces financial problems in coming decades. The second section briefly describes the political forces that have sought to...; Tags: Operational accounting, privatization, Social Security, U.S., financial; White papers 2003-06-19
How Does Privatization Affect Efficiency, Productivity And Technology Choice?: Evidence From Turkey: Uncovering the effects of privatization is difficult, because privatization of a particular firm usually is not an accident. This paper tests the effects of privatization on efficiency, firm productivity and technology choice by using a rich panel data set of privatized cement firms from Turkey. Since all public cement firms...; Tags: privatization, Turkey, accident; White papers 2003-05-01
The Privatization of Business and Commercial Dispute Resolution: A Misguided Policy Decision: This article points out that this "privatization process" is occurring at a number of levels and through a variety of mechanisms: First, and most obvious, businesses are voluntarily exiting the public court system and making increased use of private ADR to resolve their disputes. Yet, the evidence is mixed as...; Tags: Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., privatization, tool; White papers 2003-01-01
How Does Trade Sale Privatization Work? Evidence from the Fixed-Line Telecommunications Sector in Developing Economies: This research examines the effects of privatization transaction strategy on enterprise performance in developing economies. Focusing on trade sale privatization, we use an event-driven data strategy and time-series regression techniques on data covering fixed-line telecommunications operators between 1980 and 1998. The results show performance benefits are realized when privatization trade...; Tags: Performance management, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., privatization, performance, financial, telecommunications, strategy, sales; White papers 2002-09-01
Taxing Issues With Privatization : A Checklist: The paper talks about privatization which has been a popular strategy for improving efficiency in both market and transition economies. The literature on privatization includes broad discussions of pricing techniques but overlooks tax issues. In reality, a state-owned company loses its privilege of paying no taxes once it is privatized....; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, World Bank Group, privatization, tax, pricing strategy, industry, financial, strategy; White papers 2000-05-01
Case Study: US Investigation Services: In 1996, 650 employees of the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Federal Investigations OFI became owners of a new private company, US Investigations services USIS. Since the privatization, USIS has done extremely well, already hiring 70 new workers and exceeding sales projections. So far, the process seems to be...; Tags: Corporate governance, Recruitment & Selection, American Capital Mortgage Co., privatization, personnel management, hiring, board, Microsoft Office, board of directors, leadership, worker, sales; Case studies 1997-04-01