The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …

study reveals that the bank-specific factors are the most influential on banks’ profitability, and to a lesser extent the …

lower profitability and higher costs than their private counterparts, and that the opposite is true for foreign-owned banks … (which tend to be characterized by higher profitability and lower costs). We also find that, in developing countries, the …, although we do not find any effect on profitability of domestic banks. …

out that this evidence cannot be used as an argument against the existence of state-owned banks, as this low profitability …

. Martin Feldstein's pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his … rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both the political and the economic rhetoric of Social Security privatization …