countries, none of which systematically reprivatized firms during the 1930s. Privatization in Nazi Germany was also unique in … transferred to private ownership belonged to diverse sectors. Privatization was part of an intentional policy with multiple … financial restrictions were a central motivation. In addition, privatization was used as a political tool to enhance support for …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of intermunicipal cooperation and privatization on the delivery costs …

groups. This paper documents both the creation and the privatization of the SOE sector in Puerto Rico, and analyzes the role … might have played a significant role in the building of the SOE sector, we find that privatization was driven basically by …

privatization modality of contracting out. We start by discussing some of the theoretical aspects of contracting out. We then …

economies on local service privatization performance. It is shown that the first object seller takes profit of this …

faces a consolidation problem, opting more frequently to implement policies of privatization and cooperation, at the expense … privatization and cooperation, and more to competition. The two options - cooperation and competition - have their merits when …

This paper examines factors influencing privatization in solid waste collection and water distribution. We take …

Several empirical studies have analyzed the factors that influence local privatization. Variables related to fiscal … intermunicipal cooperation as a potential alternative to privatization in order to exploit scale economies or scope economies. We … privatization (that is, contracting out to a private firm) is less common for water distribution than for solid waste collection …

the recent process of privatization and its motivations. Since public ownership and regulation are substitutes for … government intervention, we check the hypothesis that highways privatization induces more strict regulation. Indeed, we observe …