This paper begins from the twin observation that on the one hand, privatization which leaves control in the hands of … restructuring even in the absence of a clear prospect of privatization. It situates enterprise restructuring at the heart of the …

some countries, restructuring is being undertaken by the state before privatization; in some, restructuring is delegated to … and private firms and the complementarity between the assets of state and firms. The slow pace of privatization is due to … privatization process in East Germany. It notes that five parties have been central to the reform process: the state, the …

This paper proposes a model to shed light on two important policy features of privatization in Central and Eastern … Europe: the idea of a necessary critical mass of privatization on the one hand, and the difficulties encountered in the … actual privatization process on the other, related to the government's inability to precommit to announced policies. The main …

experience of Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia in these areas, and reviews in detail their privatization plans for the three … extremely rapid rate of ownership change. While all countries will use a mixture of privatization methods, Hungary intends to … practice requires some important institutional developments such as the creation of Privatization Funds (as suggested in Poland …

privatization on airport charges in a panel data setting where fixed effects can be employed to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Our …

This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization … intermediate suppliers and investors have also clearly benefited during the short privatization duration. However the paper also …

examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 …-15 percent following the shift to privatization. In light of the massive change in financial costs associated with childbearing … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …