Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …

In this paper, we analyze the impact of privatization on the firms' R&D performance. We expect that, in the early … period after privatization, path dependencies still negatively affect the efficiency of R&D operations. We test our …

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

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 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 …