The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce … than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …

ownership and competition appear to be about equally important for the consequences of public sector outsourcing. …

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 …

Many comparisons of the performance of public and private producers use a public/private ownership dummy variable to …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while … ownership is strongly correlated with performance in developing countries, that ownership is not correlated with performance in …