This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on … a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization … smaller in that the fraction of a bank's ownership relinquished during privatization events declined. The majority of …

This paper studies the political economy of bank privatization in Argentina following institutional changes related to … hypothesis that political incentives affect the likelihood of privatization. We find: (i) poorly performing banks were more … likely to be privatized; (ii) overstaffing tended to reduce the probability of privatization; (iii) large banks were less …