Generating government revenue is a common objective in privatization. This paper asks: what determines privatization … actions prior to privatization. The data, gathered from primary sources, encompass 361 privatized Mexican companies in 49 four …-digit industry codes. The determinants of auction privatization prices are divided into three groups: (1) company performance and …

This paper studies the economic benefits of home ownership. Exploiting a quasi-experiment surrounding privatization … of housing wealth are concentrated among the home owners who sell subsequent to privatization and among those who receive …

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 …