Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring, 2002 by Title

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    • Regulating unbundled network utilities 

      Newbery, David M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      The new conventional wisdom is that network utilities should be unbundled, with the potentially competitive segments under separate ownership from the natural monopoly network. Regulation should provide the same incentives ...

    • The colour of the cats 

      Li, David D.; Wu, Changqi (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      China has experimented with two strategies of reform of its state-owned enterprises (SOE). One is diversification of SOEs? ownership through introducing non-state sources of investment. Another is to improve the management ...

    • The effect of technology choice on automobile assembly plant productivity 

      Van Biesebroeck, Johannes (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      Productivity growth is usually represented by a continuous shift of the production or cost function. In the automobile industry, there is evidence of a more discrete change in the technology. I estimate a structural model ...

    • The impact of structural and contractual arrangements on a vertically separated railway 

      Affuso, Luisa; Newbery, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      The unbundling of railways in Britain has been heavily criticised as undermining the passenger rail system. Economic theory suggests that structural separation and short-lived contracts hinder incentives to invest in ...

    • Time dependent efficiency of free trade agreements: the case of Slovenia and the CEFTA agreement 

      Damijan, Joze P.; Masten, Igor (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      In international trade literature there is a common feature that the abolishment of barriers to trade leads to direct expansion of trade flows. Many empirical studies that simulate welfare effects of trade liberalisation ...

    • Why are productivity and wages higher in foreign firms? 

      Girma, Sourafel; Thompson, Steve; Wright, Peter W. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses a panel data framework to examine whether foreign firms in the UK have higher levels of productivity and set higher wage rates than domestic ones ceteris paribus, or whether this is due to unmeasured ...