This paper studies the experience of regulatory reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Thailand and Malaysia. It … explores the trends of regulatory reforms relating to the creation of privatization, liberalization, and competition. The paper … Thailand and Malaysia. It argues that, while having active plans for regulatory reforms, the implementation of these reforms …

The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …

liberalization and their privatization which can be complete or partial such that upstream production is still run by an SOE. We show … in most cases even if a holdup problem exists. For any vertically separated structure we find that privatization through … multi-product firms welfare dominates privatization through single-product firms. …

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 …

through 2000. We find that governments do not relinquish control after "privatization." We show that the market-to-book ratios …

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 …