Public firm incentives under asymmetric information and prospect of deregulation and privatization
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Keywords
Regulation; public firms; incentives; optimal deregulation; asymmetric information; deregulation; privatization; contracts; public policy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2012-06-25 (Contract Theory and Applications)
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