Does Inefficiency Justify Privatization? The Case of Intermediate Industry Monopolies
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Keywords
Privatization; Deregulation; Public Inefficiency; Public Monopolies;All these keywords.
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- E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2005-07-25 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EFF-2005-07-25 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-REG-2005-07-25 (Regulation)
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