Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of … competition in their infrastructure industries while others do not? Why did the pace of adoption accelerate in the 1990s? Building … on neo-institutional theory in sociology, we argue that the domestic adoption of market-oriented reforms is strongly …

other. As for competition policy, this implies that growth-enhancing policies maybe misguided and that quick deregulation as …This paper proves three theorems on growth and competition in a standard increasing variety endogenous growth model and … draws conclusions for second-best competition policies. First, no growth may be better than some growth, since modest …

With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or … for reasons of ideological preferences. The method of privatization (auction, bargaining, giveaway) is the one that is …

optimal policy choice is to combine privatization with proactive competition policies. …The article argues that most objections against a new wave of privatization in Russia suffer from a 'Nirvana fallacy …', i.e., rely on undue comparison of limited (yet positive) results of actual privatization policies with the alleged …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …