Nach einer Welle der Privatisierung öffentlicher Dienstleistungen in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren möchten viele …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the welfare effect of privatization in oligopoly when the government takes into … gains, privatization never increases welfare. Moreover, even when large efficiency gains are realized, an inefficient public …

service, the privatization of the telecommunications industry in Peru led to price changes that had an impact on consumer … welfare and that may be correlated with the negative public opinion of the privatization process. …

This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives for raising privatization proceeds for a panel of 22 …

The paper presents a theoretical analysis of the relationship between privatization and public deficit finance. We … examine the optimal magnitude of public asset sales and the extent to which privatization can be used to reduce taxes, or, to … retire public debt, for two cases. In the first, standard case, privatization proceeds are used directly to finance the …

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Background -- Chapter 2 Lobbying – A Public Choice Perspective -- Chapter … 3 Lobbying from the Perspective of Behavioral Political Economy -- Chapter 4 Policy Failure and Lobbying -- Chapter 5 … Lobbying and Macroeconomic Development -- Part II: Channels of Influence and their Regulation -- Chapter 6 Informational …