privatization, management development systems, supplier relations, and employment relations. The chapters explore the proposition …

We reexamine the well-publicized claim that "rapid mass privatisation [of state-owned enterprises] . . . was a crucial … shows that the estimated correlation of privatization and mortality in country-level data is not robust to recomputing the … mass-privatization measure, to assuming a short lag for economic policies to affect mortality, and to controlling for …

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …