results also indicate that privatisation has positive effects on firm performance. In particular, domestic private firms and …

In their privatization programs, transition governments have frequently given away shares (so-called `mass … privatization'), while maintaining significant minority ownership. We explain the rationality of these policies for an expected net … constraint both raises prices that would otherwise be negative to zero, and has an indirect effect: mass privatization and …

This paper uses the sequencing of privatisation to infer the objective pursued by the Polish government in the … privatisation of its large manufacturing firms in the second half of the 1990's. We construct a model of mixed oligopoly, and use it … to evaluate the privatisation process; our analysis is based on the assumption that firms which furthered the government …

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 …