taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …Over the last decade, Chile has undertaken remarkable reforms and transferred publicly owned utilities to the private … water and sewage. In this paper, the authors analyze a series of post-privatization disputes and renegotiations that have …

Chile under the authoritarian regime of Augusto Pinochet. The paper aims to reveal the specific role that the pension reform …

taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …Over the last decade, Chile has undertaken remarkable reforms and transferred publicly owned utilities to the private … water and sewage. In this paper, the authors analyze a series of post-privatization disputes and renegotiations that have …

-as-you-go (PAYGO) to partial or full funding. Privatization is viewed as one way to insulate social security from the political and … demographic pressures that currently threaten the financial stability of PAYGO systems. However, privatization would improve a … nation's situation only if such a reform increases domestic saving. In this paper I use evidence from Chile, where social …

With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or … for reasons of ideological preferences. The method of privatization (auction, bargaining, giveaway) is the one that is …