We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly … spinoffs increase the firm’s profitability but do not alter its scale of operations, while the effect of privatization … consistent with tunneling (looting) by managers or (partial) owners. The effects of privatization are hence much less clear …

-scale privatization economy. Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that few types of … private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves …

investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization … documented phenomenon both in this study and in the cross-country literature on privatization; e.g. political ends in … privatization, influence in appointments, golden shares) as the most visible part of such collusion. Liberalization and multi …

’s case within the international debate regarding the privatization of state-owned companies and the importance of CG … mechanisms as instruments of change. It is argued that the privatization of state-owned companies, when is accompanied with …