While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could …

Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners … 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 …

. Succinctly, countries receive a commercial return on their soft power …

This paper examines the relationship between the concentration of political power in legislative bargaining and the … limit the concentration of power …

Shareholder valuations are economically and statistically positively correlated with independent directors' power …, gauged by social network power centrality. Powerful independent directors' sudden deaths reduce shareholder value …