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 …

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 …