We examine the stock price reaction of rival firms to privatization announcements to infer information about industry … effects of privatization. We find that the rival firms reacted negatively to privatization announcements, thus suggesting that … find that the adverse reaction of the rival firms to privatization announcements in developing countries is stronger than …

In this paper, we study the effect of share issue privatization (SIP) on private investment and financial market under … privatization (crowding-out effect). Vice-versa with risk aversion and perfect intertemporal substitutability (diversification … of the crowding-out effect, when the revenues of privatization are devoted to present public consumption. …

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

" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this perspective, the change in consumers' welfare "with" and "without …

This paper evaluates the impact of privatization on the development of capital markets in a two-country general … systems) and voucher privatizations (in transition economies). It is shown how these two privatization methods can have an … international asset allocation strategies. We show that even a non-marketed privatization (free distribution of public assets to …

under vertical integration, though we also provide counter-examples. The introduction of downstream competition for the …

with increasing returns to scale. We show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the … privatization is likely to disappear once the product market allows the entry of more than one firm.In this paper, we study the … show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the shadow cost of public funds (i.e., the …

This paper develops a theory of strategic vertical DFI (direct foreign investment) to suggest an explanation for the …-haven effects based on environmental compliance costs might be complicated by such strategic behaviour. The theory provides … particular implications for the empirical research in this area and some broader implications for the theory of DFI. …