We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … underpins all three. We find that FDI inflows reduce the probability of privatization reversals, labour strikes increase that of …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition … economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private …

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 …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …

reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization …

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …