When do privatizations have popular support? A voting model

Lahmandi-Ayed, Rim; Laussel, Didier

doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2021.102633

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“…The only exceptions in this respect are Rodriguez‐Castelan (2015) and Kahloul et al (2019). We use the same model as Ghazzai et al (2021); Kahloul et al (2019, 2017); Lahmandi‐Ayed and Laussel (2018, 2022) and Amir et al (2022). In particular, Kahloul et al (2019) consider only two extreme ownership structures: concentrated where the owners of the firms are negligible; and egalitarian where the firms are equally owned by the population.…”

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More competition to alleviate poverty? A general equilibrium model and an empirical study

Ghazzai

Hemissi

Lahmandi-Ayed

et al. 2023

J Public Economic Theory

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In this paper, we theoretically and empirically analyze the impact of competition on poverty. We consider a general equilibrium framework with vertical preferences and compare poverty in a Monopoly setting versus a Duopoly setting considering explicitly the ownership structure. Poverty is measured by the size of the population living below an absolute poverty line. Theoretical results show that the impact of competition on poverty is contingent to the ownership structure, the poverty line and the relative dispersion of the individuals with respect to their intensity of preference for quality and sensitivity to effort: competition can improve or worsen poverty depending on the model's parameters. Empirical findings for the three existing poverty lines ($1.9, $3.2, and $5.5) are consistent to a large extent with our theoretical results.

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More competition to alleviate poverty? A general equilibrium model and an empirical study

Ghazzai

Hemissi

Lahmandi-Ayed

et al. 2023

J Public Economic Theory

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On the political economy of economic integration

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Globalisation and informality: The role of quality gap and social contributions

Bellakhal,

Ghazzai,

Lahmandi‐Ayed

2024

World Economy

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We investigate theoretically and empirically the effect of globalisation on informality. We use a model with two identical countries. Firms in each country choose to be formal or informal. Relative to an informal firm, a formal one produces a good of higher quality and pays social contributions on each worker. We determine the effect of globalisation on the size and the share of informality from the comparison of Autarky and Full Integration scenarios. We prove that for a given quality gap between formal and informal products, (i) globalisation increases the size of informality for low and high levels of social contributions but decreases it for intermediate ones; (ii) globalisation increases the share of informality for low social contributions and decreases it for high social contributions. The turning points depend increasingly on the quality gap. We then test these theoretical results by relying on the well‐informed data available for Latin‐American countries and using the economic sector as a proxy for the quality gap between a formal and an informal firm. Our empirical results are highly consistent with the theoretical model. In terms of policy implications, they show that globalisation may be used by the states together with modulated social contributions so as to reduce informality, but not for all economic sectors simultaneously.

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When do privatizations have popular support? A voting model

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

More competition to alleviate poverty? A general equilibrium model and an empirical study

More competition to alleviate poverty? A general equilibrium model and an empirical study

On the political economy of economic integration

Globalisation and informality: The role of quality gap and social contributions

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