We study how ownership affects productivity in the context of China's privatization state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Its true impact remains unclear and controversial, partly because government selectively privatized or liquidated nonperforming SOEs. To address this selection problem, we augment Gandhi–Navarro–Rivers nonparametric production function to incorporate endogenous changes. Results su...

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are the leading force in national economy. The main goal of mixed-ownership reform is to enhance SOEs’ independent innovation capability, thereby bringing high-quality development Based on baseline regression and mediation effect model, this study explores impact exploratory SOEs from ownership structure adjustment control rights allocation. results show that dive...

This paper relates China’s current account surplus, as well as productivity differential between state-owned (SOEs) and privately-owned enterprises (POEs), to differences in access to finance. I consider an open-economy DSGE model of the Chinese economy with two productive sectors. I model SOEs and POEs as start-ups which need to borrow in order to begin production. Following a policy-induced a...

In spite of rapid economic growth and swift structural change during the last two decades, China’s industrial reform is far from complete, especially with regard to state enterprises (SOEs). Although troubled with huge financial losses, heavy debt, and substantial over-staffing, SOEs will continue to play a crucial part in the government policy to maintain social stability and economic growth i...

Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health: Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs’ workers and a high unemployment rate. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the parents’ job loss on t...

Although a late starter with regard to privatising State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Ireland was recently ranked 8 among OECD countries in terms of relative privatisation activity. This paper presents the first detailed analysis of the programme since the first divestiture in 1991. It explores how the rationale for selling SOEs has evolved and argues that privatisation has been pursued on the bas...

Abstract State-Owned Enterprise (SOEs) are business entities owned by governments. Unlike private enterprises which operate on profit-motivation, SOEs often act motives different from profit-making such as fulfilment of governmental or political purposes. Due to this peculiar feature, activities sometime disruptive competitive market. In order regulate so that international market would not be ...