Carbon emission reduction policy with privatization in an oligopoly model

J Chen, C Sun, Y Wang, J Liu, P Zhou - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
This study constructs a mixed oligopoly model that includes a public enterprise and two
private enterprises. Game theory was adopted to explore the effects of carbon emission …

Does firm financialization affect optimal real investment decisions? Evidence from China

T Leng, Y Liu, Y Xiao, C Hou - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Whether and how financialization could crowd out real investments, and the resulting “from
real to virtual” phenomenon has great economic implications. This study examines the effect …

The impact of privatization: Evidence from the hospital sector

M Duggan, A Gupta, E Jackson, ZS Templeton - 2023 - nber.org
Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However,
effects on consumers are understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital …

Leviathan Inc. and corporate environmental engagement

PH Hsu, H Liang, P Matos - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
In a 2010 special report, The Economist magazine termed the resurgence of state-owned,
publicly listed enterprises “Leviathan Inc.” and criticized the poor governance and low …

Corporate structure, partial privatization, and wage inequality: Evidence from China's split share structure reform

MS Ee, H Beladi, CC Chao - Emerging Markets Review, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effects of privatizing China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on
wage distribution and the welfare of the economy. Privatizing profitable SOEs can narrow …

Is the State a Socially Responsible Shareholder? State-Owned Enterprises, Political Ideology, and Corporate Social Performance

LHL de Pilla, A Peci, RO Leite - Journal of Business Ethics, 2024 - Springer
The effects of state ownership on firms' outcomes depend on how governments influence the
goals of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Yet scant scholarly attention has been devoted to …

Investing with the government: A field experiment in China

E Colonnelli, B Li, E Liu - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We conduct a large-scale, nondeceptive field experiment to elicit preferences for
government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. Our main …

China's mixed-ownership reform and SOE profitability

Y Zhang, D Liu - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The mixed-ownership reform has been the mainstream for the SOE reform in China, but
rarely is known whether this reform can improve the overall profitability of SOEs. Therefore …

Before privatization there was its impact: Sugar factories in Turkey

A Demirdogen - Review of Industrial Organization, 2023 - Springer
This paper estimates the effect of a sugar-factory privatization policy on sugar beet acreages
in Turkey. It finds that sugar beet acreages decreased by more than 15% due to the 2018 …

Preferential employment policies and firm performance: Evidence from Indian public sector enterprises

R Jain, V Abraham - International Labour Review, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the impact of job reservations on the performance of public sector
enterprises (PSEs) in India. Drawing on data for all central government‐owned …