This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization experience in … privatization. Second and contrary to what is often claimed, users benefited through lower real water prices. Third, labor …

Is privatization per se socially beneficial? Or do those benefits depend on the subsequent changes in the regulatory … counterfactuals about British Telecom privatization and regulation. In the factual scenario, the British government decided to …

The standard electricity industry reform paradigm in several EU countries since the 1990s includes privatization … insists on a rather unified approach, aiming at the full opening of the internal market. Privatization neither is a necessary … and survey data on consumer satisfaction in the EU-15. Our empirical findings reject the prediction that privatization …

Public enterprises never disappeared in spite of several privatization waves in the last three decades. This paper … and acquisitions confirms that in the last ten years there has been an increase of publicization relative to privatization …

The proposal to use privatization proceeds in order to decrease public debt in Italy is criticized for several reasons … tax evasion. Without targeting such unbalances, the privatization proceeds will only contribute to delaying a fiscal …

privatization in different countries. The discussed effects include: effects on consumers, tax-payers, workers, shareholders; on …