rather than operational changes. Overall, we find little evidence that privatization alone increases airport performance …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners …

To develop new evidence on the effects of hospital ownership and other aspects of hospital market composition on health … of ownership status are quantitatively important. Areas with a presence of for-profit hospitals have approximately 2 …

performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year … management board increases significantly with stock performance and particularly poor (i.e. negative) earnings, but is unrelated … performance …

there are clear improvements in performance post-privatization. The tiger can change its stripes; however, the government …The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two …. Moreover, both SOEs and privatized SOEs significantly under-perform in profitability compared to private firms. Nevertheless …

We estimate the effects of privatization on zombie versus healthy state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, extending … privatization of underperforming, zombie-like entities can lead to substantial economic improvements and greater efficiency …