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| Boitani, Andrea; Nicolini, Marcella; Scarpa, Carlo. |
| This paper investigates how the ownership and the procedure for the selection of firms operating in the local public transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative analysis of 72 companies operating in large European cities. This allows us to consider firms selected either through competitive tendering or negotiated procedures. The analysis of the data on 77 European firms over the period 1997-2006 indicates that firms operate under constant returns to scale. Retrieving the residuals we obtain a measure of total factor productivity, which we regress on firm and city characteristics. We find that when firms are totally or partially in public hands their productivity is lower.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Local Public Transport; Public Ownership; Translog Production Function; Financial Economics; C33; K23; L25; L33; L91. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59392 |
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| Delpeuch, Claire; Vandeplas, Anneleen; Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| The cotton sector has been amongst the most regulated in Africa, and still is to a large extent in West and Central Africa (WCA), despite repeated reform recommendations by international donors. On the other hand, orthodox reforms in East and Southern Africa (ESA) have not always yielded the expected results. This paper uses a stylized contracting model to investigate the link between market structure and equity and efficiency in sub-Saharan cotton sectors and analyze the potential consequences of orthodox reforms in WCA. We argue that the level of the world price and of government intervention, the degree of post-reform competition, as well as the degree of parastatal inefficiency, all contribute to making reforms less attractive (but not less pressing)... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Sub-Saharan Africa; Cotton reforms; Self-enforcing contracts; Crop Production/Industries; Q12; L33; O12. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96176 |
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| Bortolotti, Bernardo; Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura; Spiegel, Yossi. |
| 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 structure. We show that firms in our sample increase their leverage after becoming regulated by an independent regulatory agency, but only if they are privately controlled. Moreover, we find that the leverage of these firms has a positive and significant effect on regulated prices, but not vice versa, and it also has a positive and significant effect on their investment levels. Our results are consistent with the theory that privately-controlled firms use leverage... |
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Palavras-chave: Regulated utilities; Regulatory agencies; Capital structure; Leverage; Investment; Private and state ownership; Public Economics; L51; G31; G32; L33. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7449 |
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| Delpeuch, Claire; Vandeplas, Anneleen; Swinnen, Johan F.M.. |
| The cotton sector has been amongst the most regulated in West and Central Africa (WCA), and still is to a large extent, despite repeated reform recommendations by international donors. On the other hand, orthodox reforms in East and Southern Africa (ESA) have not always yielded the expected results. This paper uses a stylized contracting model to investigate the link between market structure and equity and efficiency in sub-Saharan cotton sectors and analyze the potential consequences of orthodox reforms in WCA. We argue that the level of the world price and of government intervention, the degree of post-reform competition, as well as the degree of parastatal inefficiency, all contribute to making reforms less attractive (but not less pressing) to farmers... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Sub-Saharan Africa; Cotton reforms; Self-enforcing contracts; International Development; Q12; L33; O12. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91806 |
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| Walls, Margaret. |
| Solid waste management services are contracted out to private firms in many U.S. communities. Household waste collection, transport, and disposal are relatively straightforward services to define within the terms of a contract. The addition of recycling, however, significantly complicates matters. How should contracts be structured to provide incentives for recycling? Who should own key facilities, such as recyclable materials processing facilities? Should a separate contract for processing and sale of materials be used, or should these services be provided by government employees or purely private markets? These questions are addressed in this study using the principal-agent framework and the theory of incomplete contracts in economics. I explain stylized... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Incentive contracts; Asset specificity; Principal-agent models; Waste collection; Recycling; Environmental Economics and Policy; L33; L14; Q2. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10707 |
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| Torero, Maximo. |
| Casi diez años después de la privatización de importantes empresas estatales (EE) del Perú, el balance a priori aún no es claro. En el presente estudio se analiza el impacto de la privatización mediante un detallado análisis estadístico y econométrico. En primer lugar, mediante varios indicadores de rentabilidad, eficiencia de operación, empleo, solvencia y convergencia, se realiza un análisis de primeras diferencias entre el desempeño previo y posterior a la privatización de las empresas. Asimismo, se efectúa un análisis de segundas diferencias mediante la comparación del cambio en el desempeño de las empresas privatizadas antes y después de la privatización respecto al cambio en el desempeño de las EE. Los resultados muestran que las empresas privadas... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Empresas públicas; Privatización; Perú; Public enterprises; Privatization; Peru; L33. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37749 |
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