This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on … a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization … smaller in that the fraction of a bank's ownership relinquished during privatization events declined. The majority of …

1 Paving the Way to the Privatization of Public Financial Services -- 2 Privatization of Public Financial Services and … Financial Reforms -- 3 Progress after the Privatization of Public Financial Services and Trends by Type of Financial Institution …