We use responses to a survey and experiment with participants in Mexico's privatized social security system to examine …

Criticisms of privatization have centered around the possibility that the observed higher profitability of privatized … back generous labor contracts. Using data for all 218 non-financial privatizations that took place in Mexico between 1983 … and 1991 we find that privatized firms quickly bridge the pre-privatization performance gap with industry-matched control …

market. We use detailed administrative data on fund manager choices and worker characteristics at the inception of Mexico …

"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 …

Privatization of a public good (the management of sewage treatment centers in Dakar, Senegal) leads to an increase in … dumping increased substantially following privatization-on average an increase of 61.7%, or an increase of about 14,000 cubic … following privatization, and DHS data show that diarrhea rates among children under five decreased in Dakar relative to …