This paper studies the timing of privatization in 21 major developed economies in the 1977-2002 period. Duration analysis shows that political fragmentation plays a significant role in explaining government's decision to privatize: privatization is delayed longer in democracies characterized by...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Vorhersage von Währungskrisen. Dazu wird ein dreidimensionales Frühwarnsystem für Währungskrisen konstruiert, das anhand zehn osteuropäischer Länder von 1995 bis 2003 mit einer binär logistischen Regression in sample und out of sample auf seine...

This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...

This paper formulates a dynamic Random Coefficient Model (RCM) to consider a set of popular determinants of public deficits in the EU-15 over the period 1971-2006, both at a country-specific level and from a population-wide perspective. Although the extent of government deficits and debt has...