government employees and contracting out to private suppliers, also known as privatization. We examine empirically how United … laws restricting county spending encourage privatization, whereas strong public unions discourage it. The evidence is … by political patronage and taxpayer resistance to government spending in the privatization decision …

Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are … we interpret as a decline in access to care. Hospital privatization therefore partially offsets the benefits of providing …

"This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies. We discuss available … evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and present … of the observed cycles of privatization and nationalization, and is consistent with a variety of observed phenomena …

investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …

In 1997, France T‚l‚com, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. The government …

Many advocates of social security privatization argue that rates of return under a defined contribution individual … riskiness of stock investments. Confusion arises because three distinct reforms are muddled. By privatization we mean creating … about a quarter of all social security contributions, in perpetuity. Unlike privatization, prefunding would raise rates of …

The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The social services market is characterized by …