Is privatization per se socially beneficial? Or do those benefits depend on the subsequent changes in the regulatory … counterfactuals about British Telecom privatization and regulation. In the factual scenario, the British government decided to …

The standard electricity industry reform paradigm in several EU countries since the 1990s includes privatization … insists on a rather unified approach, aiming at the full opening of the internal market. Privatization neither is a necessary … and survey data on consumer satisfaction in the EU-15. Our empirical findings reject the prediction that privatization …

We study the impact on consumers of privatization and liberalization in the telecommunication sector for 15 EU … Countries. Policy reforms are summarized by the OECD regulatory indicators (REGREF), that considers the extent of privatization … privatization per se. The latter and liberalization of the telecommunication market play a role in explaining the consumers …

, large scale privatization changes the political-economic equilibria in a dangerous way, because it splits society between …

While most economists usually believe that privatization policy is socially beneficial, it faces increasing opposition … in several countries. In this paper we wish to discover the ingredients in a recipe for privatization discontent. To do … so we focus on Latin America, where there is wide evidence of popular opposition to privatization. We use the results of …

present some data for the UK experience of privatization. In the third section we develop a simple conceptual model that shows …