This paper models privatization as a cooperative game between the government, a trade union and the private … shareholders. These players kno w that privatization increases the efficiency of a firm, but only the management of the firm knows …

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …