evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the likelihood of privatization reversals, (b) worsened terms of trade increase … wages and prices. -- reform reversals ; price liberalization ; trade liberalization ; privatization ; political economy …

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and … potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases. -- Privatization ; financial reform ; trade liberalization ; foreign direct …

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South … substantial financial gains, with less than a third of customers who would benefit from adopting the transitional tariff actually … the tariff. Households in high income/high education neighbourhoods display a higher responsiveness to potential savings …

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …

Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … non-rush privatization. The negative effect of rushed privatization on the scale of operations and employment is even … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

combining information on initial regional labour and product market structure with the exogenous tariff reduction schedule over … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff …

social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …