International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between …

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 …

process. Particularly, it analyzes the symbiotic link between share issue privatization (SIP), i.e. privatization in public …

was largely abandoned by the IFIs and privatization and private participation in infrastructure, or PPI became the order …

This paper makes a partial assessment of the Brazilian privatization program in the 1990s. The article focuses mainly … government's stabilization attempts has reduced the fiscal benefits of privatization, and inhibited the government's capacity to …, the main objective of the privatization program has been to highlight the commitment to market-oriented reforms - in a …