This study surveys the literature examining the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) We review the history of privatization, the theoretical and empirical evidence on the …
We investigate the impact of family control on corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Using newly collected data on the ultimate ownership structure of publicly …
JE Stiglitz - American economic review, 2002 - pubs.aeaweb.org
The research for which George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and I are being recognized is part of a larger research program which today embraces a great number of researchers around …
In many countries, public sector institutions impose heavy burdens on economic life: heavy and arbitrary taxes retard investment, regulations enrich corrupt bureaucrats, state firms …
I would like to discuss improvements in our understanding of economic development, in particular the emergence of what is sometimes called the 'post-Washington Consensus'. My …
J Vickers, G Yarrow - Journal of economic perspectives, 1991 - aeaweb.org
Despite being one of the most fundamental issues in political economy, the question of the appropriate boundary between public and private enterprise received relatively little …
The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian …
We evaluate the performance changes of 634 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) listed on China's two exchanges upon share issuing privatisation (SIP) in the period 1994–1998. We …