This paper discusses the most important theoretical contributions to the literature on privatization, focusing on … emerging economies, and gives a summary on recent research concerning the ways privatization might affect the development of … privatization and the reduction in social welfare and the possibility that the privatization process itself may have conflicting …

International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …

productivity trends. …

through 2000. We find that governments do not relinquish control after "privatization." We show that the market-to-book ratios …

Stock market capitalization in developed countries grew while massive privatization plans were in progress. It is …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role of political institutions in privatization. The empirical testing … we show the likelihood and the extent of privatization to be strongly and positively associated with majoritarian … political systems. On the contrary, in consensual democracies privatization seems delayed by a "war of attrition" among …

Share issue privatization - i.e. privatization on public equity markets - is often claimed to foster stock market … development. In this paper, we provide an empirical assessment of this claim, testing the role of privatization on two market … liquidity measures in a panel with monthly data of 19 developed economies. Privatization is shown to be key in improving …

We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle … primary determinant of privatization policies. Privatization is a means to an end, of course, rather than an end in itself …. But we proceed under the assumption that policymakers have decided, for whatever reason, that privatization is a desirable …