From Public Monopsony to Competitive Market: More Efficiency but Higher Prices

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Leveraged Buyouts
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Competitive Market,
Worker
Source:
BRUKOFF - CHAFFEE

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Overview: This paper examines the consequences of creating a fully competitive market in a sector previously dominated by a cost-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical findings, our model implies that firms in the competitive market provide stronger monetary incentives to workers, reach higher productivity, and employ fewer workrs than public firms. Allocative efficiency therefore increases. Nevertheless, the prices of the sector's output rise as competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage costs than under the public monopsony. Political support for liberalisation may therefore be limited.

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Format: PDF | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1

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