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Private and Quasi-Private Standards

2021
Abstract This chapter discusses the concept of private and quasi-private standards in the environmental domain. While many of these standards involve the labelling of compliant products, others do not. The chapter begins by defining the concept of private and quasi-private standards, examining their rise and the reasons for this.
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Privatization: An Economic Analysis

, 1988
The process of selling assests and enterprises to the private sector raises questions about natural monopolies, the efficiency and equity of state-owned versus privately owned enterprises, and industrial policy. This comprehensive analysis of the British
J. Vickers, G. Yarrow
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Privatization, Restructuring, and Regulation of Network Utilities

, 2000
Network utilities, such as electricity, telephones, and gas, are public utilities that require a fixed network to deliver their services. Because consumers have no choice of network, they risk exploitation by network owners.
D. Newbery
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Does Government Ownership Affect the Cost of Debt? Evidence from Privatization

, 2010
We explore whether government ownership affects the cost of debt using a sample of fully and partially privatized companies. On average across firms, a one-percentage-point decrease in government ownership is associated with an increase in the credit ...
Ginka Borisova, W. Megginson
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Private Banks and Private Banking

2016
Private banks have been defined as banks whose owners are also their managers and whose legal form is that of a partnership. This chapter emphasizes their continued relevance from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, even though they became increasingly marginalized from the 1870s.
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The Private Option [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Health care reform is once again in the air. Virtually all Democrats favor some meaningful expansion of public insurance, whether through single payer or the creation of a "public option" that would allow consumers dissatisfied with the private market to buy into a public program. Republicans, not surprisingly, have pushed back, not only against single
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Privatization and the Decline of Labour's Share: International Evidence from Network Industries

, 2012
Some authors have suggested that deregulation of product and labour markets is responsible for the decline in Labour's share of GDP. A simple model predicts that privatization is associated with a lower labour share, due to job shedding.
Ghazala Azmat, A. Manning, J. Van Reenen
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Privatization … Privation … Privacy

2013
The mantra of the post-Cold War era has been “privatize or perish,” a slogan that has guided not only the three most populous countries in the world, China, India, and Russia, but even the so-called free enterprise democracies of old. Simultaneously, in many of the same regions, human deprivation and destitution seem to have gone hand in hand with ...
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Prison Privatization

, 2012
This book examines the current state of both the theory and practice of prison privatization in the United States in the 21st century, providing a balanced compendium of research that allows readers to draw their own conclusions about this controversial ...

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Fisheries Privatization and the Remaking of Fishery Systems

, 2012
Th is article draws on directed ethnographic research and a review of lit- erature to explore how the commodifi cation of fi shing rights discursively and materi- ally remakes human-marine relationships across diverse regions.
C. Carothers, Catherine Chambers
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