economies that posits a key role for government in the efficient operation of markets. Privatization makes a big difference in …

This paper analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The …. We employ a two-stage DEA (DEA = Data Evelopment Analysis) bootstrap approach to calculate relative efficiency measures … municipalities score lower in terms of technical efficiency than self-providing and contracting municipalities. The scope for …

autonomy being a preferred reform instrument in many countries, and of ten chosen over privatization. Using longitudinal data … partial privatization for a subset of enterprises, a unique contribution of the study lies in investigating whether ownership … divestiture through partial privatization has any effect once enterprises are imparted managerial autonomy, or whether ownership …

Until autumn 1997 the year was proclaimed to be the concluding year of privatization. The State and Privatization Trust … succeeded in escaping two traps set by the election cycle. One was the slowing down of campaign-like privatization and its … success criterion of privatization, but merely because of the logic of exposition: the presentation of summary data provides …

foreign, non-financial firms play a significant part. Foreign corporate owners have a beneficial effect on the efficiency and …

and efficiency. The authors show that the data do not at all confirm the hypotheses worked out in the early nineties for … multinational. Based on the analysis of the ownership structure of big firms, of the relationship between property and efficiency as …