privatization on airport charges in a panel data setting where fixed effects can be employed to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Our … main empirical results indicate that aeronautical charges are lower at airports when single-till regulation is employed …, when airports are privatized, and -- tentatively -- when ex-post price regulation is applied. Furthermore, hub airports …

This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization … intermediate suppliers and investors have also clearly benefited during the short privatization duration. However the paper also …

this separation interact with the regulation of the product market. The main issue to be addressed here is how the degree … how deregulation affects corporate structure. In the benchmark case where the government maximizes privatization proceeds …

The paper analyses governments’ trade-off between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so … developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly …

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation … to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose their price and output levels … than traditional regulation where governments commit to both investment and operation cash-flows. This is especially …

? Peru has the full set of democratic institutions. In the 1990s, the secret-police chief Montesinos systematically …

examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 …-15 percent following the shift to privatization. In light of the massive change in financial costs associated with childbearing … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …

The transition in East Germany has been characterized by an extremely rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises …-unification level. This paper argues that the government imposed an inconsistent policy toward employment on the privatization agency …, the Treuhand. Although required to take account of the shadow price of labour in the privatization negotiations (where …