Essays about: "privatization effects"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 21 essays containing the words privatization effects.

  1. 16. Privatization in Serbia - Success or Failure? Observing the Progress and the Macroeconomic Effects of a Delayed Privatization Process

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Iva Cvjeticanin; [2013]
    Keywords : privatization effects; delayed transition; progress; Serbia; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 signified a new era in European history. Most of the former socialist countries started a process of transition from centrally planned to the market economy already in 1990. READ MORE

  2. 17. Profit Seeking and the Quality of Eldercare - An empirical study of private equity's impact on the Swedish eldercare market: implications for financial performance and quality of care.

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Jacob Westerberg; John Arfwidsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Eldercare; Privatization; Mode of provision; Private equity; Financial performance; Quality of care;

    Abstract : This paper contributes to the public discussion on whether private equity firms are suitable owners of Swedish nursing home operators. We investigate: (1) if private equity owned nursing home operators are more profit seeking than other private nursing home operators, and (2) if private equity ownership is associated with adverse effects on the quality of eldercare. READ MORE

  3. 18. Private Matters: The Effects of Privatization on Adult Mortality in the former Eastern Bloc

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomihögskolan; Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Joseph Molitoris; [2011]
    Keywords : Privatization; mortality; communism; Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; crisis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The post-communist mortality crisis of the former Eastern Bloc was one of the largest peacetime mortality increases in modern history. Not without controversy, an increasingly large body of research has attributed this mortality surge to stress at the societal level. READ MORE

  4. 19. Transition and Oligarchy: The Role of the Russian Oligarchs during the Yeltsin Era

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Felicia Melander; [2010]
    Keywords : Neo-Gramscian; Oligarchs; Transition; Yeltsin; Class; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : By employing the concepts found within the neo-Gramscian theory this thesis analyzes the role and effects of the Russian oligarchs during a period of transition in Russia, primarily from 1991 to 1993, during the so-called Yeltsin era. The political and economic changes during this period of time, especially the new market and privatization reforms that were implemented under Yeltsin contributed to a weak hegemonic development, for instance, and enabled the oligarchs to advantageously position themselves within politics and finance. READ MORE

  5. 20. Deregulation and privatization in the Japanese financial sector and its effects on competition

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Johansson; [2008-12-18T14:43:13Z]
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    Abstract : In this thesis I am studying the institutional reforms that have been made in the Japanese financial system, from the beginning of the 80s but mostly between the years 1990-2000, and the privatization of the Japan Post, started in 2007. In the highly regulated Japanese financial system, the government divided the banks and other financial institutions into functional and regional categories such as city banks, regional banks, long-term credit banks, and securities companies etc, and restricted entry of companies of another category. READ MORE