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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Itō, Takatoshi, 1950-2025

Krueger, Anne O.

Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Conference Name:

NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics (12th : 2001 : Hong Kong, China)

Series:

NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics (Series) ; v. 12.

NBER-East Asia seminar on economics ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privatization--East Asia.

Privatization.

Corporate governance--East Asia.

Corporate governance.

Trade regulation--East Asia.

Trade regulation.

Industrial policy--East Asia.

Industrial policy.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

xi, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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.

Notes:

"This volume contains edited versions of papers presented at the NBER's East Asia Seminar on Economics twelfth annual conference, held in Hong Kong, June 28-30, 2001"--Ackn.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

ISBN:

0226386791

OCLC:

52559147

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