Off the rails: Is state ownership bad for productivity?
We estimate the effect of state ownership on the performance of colonial Indian railways. * We find the transition to state ownership did not lower total factor productivity or partial productivity in capital, labor and fuel. * Our estimates are within the range of estimates found by studies on the effects of privatization in non-democratic settings. * Our study highlights the conditions under which state ownership can produce comparable productivity to private ownership. The performance of Indian railways in the nineteenth century provides a great context to study the effects of state ownersh... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of comparative economics |
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Amsterdam,
Elsevier
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Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0147-5967 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | doi: 10.1016/j.jce.2015.03.003 |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-1965001629 |
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Datenquelle: | Online Contents Benelux; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2015.03.003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2015.03.003 |