Governance, regulation, and privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region

Governance, regulation, and privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region / edited by Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger.

Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an acceleration in the move from government regulation towards privatization. Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region is the first thoroughgoing account of the relative success of the different approaches to privatization a...

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Corporate Author: NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics
Other Authors: Itō, Takatoshi, 1950-, Krueger, Anne O.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Series:NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics (Series) ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Privatization > East Asia.
Corporate governance > East Asia.
Trade regulation > East Asia.
Industrial policy > East Asia.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Corporate governance
Industrial policy
Privatization
Trade regulation
Privatisering.
Corporate governance.
Regulering.
East Asia
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Takatoshi Ito, Anne O. Krueger
  • I. OVERVIEW
  • Privatization and corporate governance / Simon Johnson, Andrei Shleifer
  • Antitrust merger policy: lessons from the Australian experience / Philip L. Williams, Graeme Woodbridge
  • Using markets to help solve public problems / John McMillan
  • II. COUNTRY STUDIES
  • Recent developments in the public-enterprise sector of Korea / Il Chong Nam
  • The Korean economic crisis and corporate governance system / Sung Wook Joh
  • Sources of corporate financing and economic crisis in Korea: micro-evidence / Youngjae Lim
  • Initial pulic offering and corporate governance in China's transitional economy / Chen Chien-Hsun, Shih Hui-Tzu
  • Why do governments dumpt state enterprises? Evidence from China / David D. Li, Francis T. Lui
  • Productivity effects of TVE privatization: the case study of garment and metal-casting enterprises in the greater Yangtze River Region / Tetsushi Sonobe, Keijiro Otsuka
  • Government commitment and the outcome of privatization in China / Yang Yao
  • III. SECTORAL PRIVATIZATION AND REGULATION
  • Rail reform strategies: the Australian experience / Helen Owens
  • The Japanese experience with railway restructuring / Fumitoshi Mizutani, Kiyoshi Nakamura
  • What has been achieved in the Japanese telecommunications industry since 1985? / Tsuruhiko Nambu
  • How to restructure failed banking systems: lessons from the United States in the 1930s and Japan in the 1990s / Charles W. Calomiris, Joseph R. Mason
  • Banks, bailout guarantees, and risky debt / Aaron Tornell.

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