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Partial Ownership For The Public Firm And Competition

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  • Sang‐Ho Lee
  • Hae‐Shin Hwang

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This paper investigates the issue of partial ownership (partial privatization) of a state‐owned public enterprise. We elaborate on the framework of Matsumura (1998) by allowing for managerial inefficiency, and show that under moderate conditions partial ownership is a reasonable choice of government in a monopoly market as well as in a mixed duopoly market, where a public firm competes with a profit‐maximizing private firm. We also provide some economic rationale on the result that neither full privatization nor full nation‐alization is optimum.

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  • Sang‐Ho Lee & Hae‐Shin Hwang, 2003. "Partial Ownership For The Public Firm And Competition," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 54(3), pages 324-335, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jecrev:v:54:y:2003:i:3:p:324-335
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-5876.00261
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