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 …

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …

Die rasche und umfassende Privatisierung der inflexiblen Staatsbetriebe gehört zu den dringendsten Aufgaben in den … fördern. Um das Interesse der Bevölkerung an einer raschen, effizienten und international offenen Privatisierung zu stärken …

The debate on the privatization of enterprises in Eastern Europe often presumes that enterprises are still controlled … adopt a myopic attitude, and neglect the long-run profitability of their firms. Centrally organized privatization programs …. However, such privatization programs challenge the present position of managers, workers, and local bureaucrats. The insiders …

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two …

There have been numerous empirical studies of privatization programs, which have found efficiency gains to firms … and consistent firm data both before and after privatization, the absence of vital business mechanisms and institutions to … distribute reliable business information, and misconceptions about what privatization actually is. Given these problems, Stiglitz …