Stock market capitalization in developed countries grew while massive privatization plans were in progress. It is …

In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification … of the crowding-out effect, when the revenues of privatization are devoted to present public consumption. …

above average size, initial profitability and initial labor productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find … that foreign investment has a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact on TFP (Total Factor Productivity) growth …

Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …

This paper evaluates the impact of privatization on the development of capital markets in a two-country general … systems) and voucher privatizations (in transition economies). It is shown how these two privatization methods can have an … international asset allocation strategies. We show that even a non-marketed privatization (free distribution of public assets to …