In 1997, France Telecom, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. We adapt a …

This research examines the effects of privatization transaction strategy on enterprise performance in developing … economies. Focusing on trade sale privatization, we use an event-driven data strategy and time-series regression techniques on … realized when privatization trade sales introduce large-block foreign shareholdings and hybrid forms of governance, such as …

This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The …" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this perspective, the change in consumers' welfare "with" and "without … privatised public utilities. We conclude that the contribution to consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy in the UK, when …

as a commitment device to soften competition on the retail market and harm consumers through excessively high per call …