government employees and contracting out to private suppliers, also known as privatization. We examine empirically how United … laws restricting county spending encourage privatization, whereas strong public unions discourage it. The evidence is … by political patronage and taxpayer resistance to government spending in the privatization decision …

Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are … we interpret as a decline in access to care. Hospital privatization therefore partially offsets the benefits of providing …

investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …

The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The social services market is characterized by …

This paper evaluates the welfare implications of privatization in emerging market economies, in countries where … policies are determined by the median voter. We show that privatization may lead to large efficiency gains by changing the menu … of taxes. We illustrate this point with two examples. First, we consider privatization of import competing public …