Mutual ownership: privatisation under a different name?

Mutual ownership: privatisation under a different name?

Privatisation and Indigenous Ownership: Evidence from Africa

: In recent years, privatization has become common across Africa, reversing the long-term growth in state ownership of business enterprises. Many have interpreted this as entailing the abandonment of the developmental objectives that state enterprises were established to pursue. Others, however, have suggested that the privatization process can itself provide a new means through which the same ...

Ownership of Stocks and Mutual Funds: A Panel Data Analysis

In many industrial countries, ownership rates of risky assets have risen substantially over the past decade. This trend has potentially wide–ranging implications for the intertemporal and cross–sectional allocation of risk, and for the macro economy, establishing the need for understanding ownership dynamics at the micro level. This paper offers one of the first such analyses using representati...

RFID Security Using Lightweight Mutual Authentication And Ownership Transfer Protocol

In recent years, radio frequency identification technology has moved into the mainstream applications that help to speed up handling of manufactured goods and materials. RFID tags are divided into two classes: active and passive. Active tag requires a power source that’s why its cost is more than passive tags. However, the low-cost RFID tags are facing new challenges to security and privacy. So...

Distinct neural networks support the mere ownership effect under different motivational contexts.

The "mere ownership effect" refers to individuals' tendency to evaluate objects they own more favorably than comparable objects they do not own. There are numerous behavioral demonstrations of the mere ownership effect, but the neural mechanisms underlying the expression of this self-positivity bias during the evaluation of self-associated objects have not been identified. The present study aim...