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Streamlining Government Administration and Advancing Reform in the Power Sector
Electric power is a basic industry bearing the national economy and people’s wellbeing. Power supply and security are critical to the national...
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Evolution of market power in China’s economic reform and its anti-monopoly policy: the case of Alibaba and Ant Financial Group
Karl Polanyi critically portrays how market practices have evolved from regulated to self-regulated at the end of the eighteenth century, which...
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Sustainable and market-oriented solutions for the electricity sales market reform
China officially opened up the power sales market in 2015, and the power sales market has gradually changed from state control to market allocation...
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An Empirical Analysis of Reform and Efficiency in China’s Electricity Sector
This chapter reviews the history of electricity market reforms and the evolution of electricity pricing mechanism and examines the effect of reforms...
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Employment effects of the minimum wage: evidence from the Spanish 2019 reform
We examine the employment effects of the 2019 minimum wage increase in Spain on individual probabilities of losing employment status (extensive...
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From the Market to the State: New Lessons from Regional Experiences with Power Sector Reform
Develo** economies and emerging markets worldwide are set to experience a significant increase in their electricity system financing needs as their...
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The Political Economy of the Next Wave of Power Sector Reforms in Africa: Evidence from Zimbabwe, Kenya and Namibia
The past decade has seen rapid innovations in energy technologies and business models, especially the breakthrough of low-cost renewable and...
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The added worker effect: evidence from a disability insurance reform
The Netherlands reformed its disability insurance (DI) scheme in 2006. Reintegration incentives for employers became stronger, access to DI benefits...
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Gone with the wind: how state power and industrial policy in the offshore wind power sector are blowing away the obstacles to East Asia’s green energy transition
Offshore wind power (OWP) is emerging as the fastest growing sector in the global race towards renewables, and likely to emerge in just a few years...
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How a French corporate tax reform raised wages: evidence from an innovative method
This paper documents the effect on wages of one of the most far-reaching French economic reforms of the past decade. The reform, implemented between...
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Changing prices after the reform of local public services: remunicipalization versus privatization
Privatization and remunicipalization have been used as alternative options to reform the delivery of local public services; in both cases, mainly...
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Old-Developed Regions of Russia in the Waves of Municipal Reform
Abstract—This article is devoted to the problems of local self-government in Russia and its relationship with higher authorities. The recent attempt,...
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Understanding the energy sector deregulations: international evidence
We extend the political economy analysis of reforms proposed by Abiad and Mody (Am Econ Rev 95(1):66–88, 2005) to the energy sector, then the...
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What Have Reforms Delivered So Far?—A Quantitative Analysis of Power Sector Reform Impacts in the ASEAN Economies
The importance of the power sector to the ASEAN economies in delivering improved socio-economic prosperity is undeniable. Therefore, reforms in the...
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An Empirical Analysis of Reform and Efficiency in China’s Electricity Sector
This chapter reviews the history of electricity market reforms and the evolution of electricity pricing mechanism and examines the effect of reforms...
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Degree of Monopoly and Distribution of Income in India’s Organised Manufacturing Sector
The present study is an attempt to examine the development of monopoly capitalism in India through industry-level analysis of the change in the...
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How does central enterprise reform promote total factor productivity of defense firms in China?
Since 2017, the reform of central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China has had a profound impact on the operations and development of...
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Tackle spurious invoices challenges to VAT compliance: a quasi-experiment of input VAT deduction reform in China
When upstream suppliers are VAT-exempted, overclaiming by fictional invoices becomes easier. This paper examines the effect of the presumed input VAT...
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Balancing Innovation and Efficiency: The Impact of Mixed Ownership Reform on Total Factor Productivity in Monopolized and Competitive Industries
This paper examines the transformative impact of mixed ownership reform on total factor productivity (TFP) across monopolized and competitive...
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German labor market reform and the rise of Eastern Europe: dissecting their effects on employment
From the early 1990s until 2005 the unemployment rate rose in Germany from 7.3 to 11.7%. While the unemployment rate reached its peak in 2005, it...
