Results 301 to 310 of about 94,418 (351)

Public Ownership of the External World and Private Ownership of Self

Journal of Political Economy, 1989
Liberal political philosophy, represented classically by John Locke and today by libertarians, defends great inequality of economic outcome on the basis that people own themselves and are entitled to establish private property in the external world by virtue of that self-ownership.
Moulin, Herve, Roemer, John
openaire   +1 more source

PRIVATE OWNERSHIP

Legal Theory, 2010
The most powerful response to growing skepticism about the intelligibility of the idea of private ownership has been cast in terms of an owner's rights to the exclusive use of an object. In these pages, I argue that this response suffers from three basic deficiencies—rather than merely explanatory gaps—that render it unable to overcome the specter of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Private versus Public Ownership: Investment, Ownership Distribution, and Optimality [PDF]

The Journal of Finance, 1988
ABSTRACTExamined in this paper is the choice between private and public incorporation of an asset for an entrepreneur (asset owner) who hires a manager with superior information about the asset's return distribution. Public sale of equity is shown to be the preferred alternative when (a) capital market issue costs are low or (b) the assest's ...
Shah, Salman, Thakor, Anjan V
openaire   +1 more source

Insider Ownership and Privatization

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
This paper analyses the trade-off between the need to restructure a firm before privatization and to provide an appropriate corporate governance for the privatized firm. In order to provide managers with appropriate incentives to run the company, once privatized, it may be optimal to let them acquire equity in the firm.
Francesca Cornelli, David D. Li
openaire   +1 more source

Ownership Reforms or Privatization?

Eastern European Economics, 1991
(1991). Ownership Reforms or Privatization? Eastern European Economics: Vol. 30, Privatization in Central Europe, pp. 57-91.
openaire   +1 more source

Privatization, partial state ownership, and competition

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2003
Abstract In practice, governments in transition and other economies often retain some shares in privatized firms. For a two-firm differentiated-product oligopoly, we show how partial state ownership affects the firms' subsequent investment and output behavior.
John Bennett, James Maw
openaire   +3 more sources

PATTERNS OF PRIVATE HOSPITAL OWNERSHIP IN VICTORIA

Community Health Studies, 1982
AbstractA study has been conducted into the pattern of ownership of “for‐profit” private hospitals in Victoria. Private companies were found to dominate the acute care private hospital business in Victoria; the company structures were sophisticated, involving numerous individuals and the business was rapidly expanding.
Morley, JB, Taylor, RG, Opit, LJ
openaire   +3 more sources

Private ownership of commons

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1990
Abstract The paper examines the efficiency of different institutional arrangements for private ownership of commons. It compares three cases: the private owner is (i) a producer-seller, (ii) a landlord who hires the right to use the common to independent owner-operators, and (iii) a landlord who hires his road to profit-maximizing firms. A well-known
openaire   +1 more source

Private Economic Liberty and the Idea of Quasi-Private Ownership

Raisons politiques, 2019
L’idée de « liberté économique privée » est centrale à la fois pour la conception de l’équité au sein d’un marché libre – conception développée par John Tomasi – ainsi que pour l’école du libéralisme néo-classique dont les travaux de Tomasi sont peut-être l’exemple le plus largement discuté. Dans cet article, j’examine le rôle joué par la conception de
openaire   +1 more source

A Primer on Private Equity Ownership in ABA

Behavior Analysis in Practice
The applied behavior analysis (ABA) service industry is currently estimated to be worth at least $4 billion. As a result of potential profits that can be made from ABA services, for-profit organizations have become more common in the field. One type of for-profit organization that has become especially prominent in the ABA service industry is private ...
Cody Morris, Emma Grauerholz-Fisher, Megan E. Ellsworth, Caroline E. Crocker   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources