Product Description: The current worldwide trend towards airport privatisation, the increasing shortage of airport capacity as well as the first experiences with EC airline deregulation have led to a shift in the industry's attention to the regulatory framework for the operation, expansion and conduct of airports as well as to the future shape of the airline and airport industries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Banking privatisation represents one of the major forces which are significantly changing the banking sector in Europe. Studying the process of banking privatisation thus helps to understand the dynamics of the sector. This book analyses - from the perspective of both commercial banking and investment banking - the various processes of banking privatisation in Europe and their effects on the strategies and structures of banks. In its theoretical part, the book considers technical and financial aspects of banking privatisation from Spain, France, Italy, Norway, Germany, and Russia. An indispensable reading for investment bankers, regulators as well as policy-makers responsible for the existence of efficient and stable banking systems. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this shocking exposé, two government fraud experts reveal how private contractors have put the lives of countless American soldiers on the line while damaging our strategic interests and our image abroad. From the shameful war profiteering of companies like Halliburton/KBR to the sinister influence that corporate lobbyists have on American foreign policy, Dina Rasor and Robert H...read more

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Product Description: This study promises to take the reader on a privatization drive: it covers the political, economic and socio-cultural dimensions and points out the impediments and hazards on the way, providing a preview of the path ahead. Asha Gupta provides insights into the UK, East Germany, post-communist societies, developing countries and India...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Provides empirical analysis of impact of privatization on fiscal sector, capital flows, technology, business efficiency, banking, and national savings. Includes articles on Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. A timely and important work'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: One thing that mature, developing, or undeveloped nations have in common in today's global economy is the necessity to construct, repair, refurbish, and modernize their infrastructure. More and more governments are turning to the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) process to accomplish this expensive and enormously challenging task--allowing private developers to design, finance, construct, and operate revenue-producing public projects, and then turn them over to the community at the end of an agreed payback period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Privatization of infrastructure for water, electricity, transportation, and communications services has gained momentum in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past decade. Success has often depended on the extent to which countries implement the institutional and regulatory reforms essential to attract private investment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An examination of the rise of the private sector in command economies.

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Product Description: Since the advent of reform in 1992, the Russian authorities have made substantial strides toward creating a market economy through privatization. Recently, Russian authorities have established an institutional framework for a 'case-by-case' approach that ensures transparency and competition through the use of independent financial and other advisers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Kozminski, Andrzej K.

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Product Description: Since the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, two major schools of thought have wrestled with how the reforming states can best break with the old system and join the West. The dominant school, the so-called "big bangers", has advocated abrupt, sweeping moves towards a Western-style market economy...read more

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This text demonstrates that the traditional rational choice model of economic behaviour is unsatisfactory in providing accounts of the way people choose in relation to work, saving, spending, investment and social welfare. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: There is already a large consensus in Slovenia for involving the private sector in communal infrastructure financing. However, there is presently no global strategy for translating this consensus into practice.This study contributes toward a better understanding of communal infrastructure investment issues in Slovenia, especially the main bottlenecks in this area, and discusses policies aimed at increasing the volume of communal infrastructure investment...read more

Product Description: This text discusses the development of company management and capital markets in the rapidly changing Central and Eastern Europe. It covers topics such as different privatization methods in different countries, and financial structure, performance and the banks of these countries...read more

Product Description: This study synthesizes and summarizes the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence that suggest that competition works remarkably well to reduce costs and improve efficiency and innovation, even in an arena where competition has typically been ignored--government-financed services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The euphoria of the political revolutions of 1989 is increasingly being replaced by a sober reality: building viable economic systems and transforming state enterprises into privately owned businesses in Eastern Europe is exceedingly complicated, difficult and costly...read more