witness any significant improvement in their performance, which questions the benefits of privatization in Egypt. …Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of …

International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …

Most privatization programs begin with a period of partial privatization in which only non-controlling shares of firms … partial privatization has little impact on firm behavior. This perspective ignores the role that the stock market can play in … population of Indian state-owned enterprises we find that partial privatization has a positive and highly significant impact on …

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. …

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

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

This paper discusses the most important theoretical contributions to the literature on privatization, focusing on … emerging economies, and gives a summary on recent research concerning the ways privatization might affect the development of … privatization and the reduction in social welfare and the possibility that the privatization process itself may have conflicting …