within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition …

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on …

often been reduced in traditional public-sector industries, where private provision has increased with deregulation and …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …