The privatization literature depicts the choice whether to contract out as a tradeoff between excessive private … it is kept in-house. Therefore, privatization decisionmakers and monitoring agencies may be more prone to capture when …

Disappointment with insider trading in Russia, with voucher privatization in the Czech Republic, and with the … privatization of infrastructure in many developing countries has spawned new critiques of privatization. How do theory and empirical … privatization mean that privatized firms perform worse than state enterprises? Shirley and Walsh's review found greater ambiguity …

their capital, which previously were published as part of government privatization programs (from 2011 – for three …

privatization. In solving the (n 1)-firms oligopoly model we make use of aggregative games techniques. Our analysis reveals that … privatization reduces the optimal R&D subsidy, but increases aggregate R&D effort. Furthermore, privatization improves social … to R&D does not lead to a ‘privatization neutrality theorem' or, ‘irrelevance result' …

form of ownership, and the corresponding estimation of privatization in the context of the advantages and disadvantages of … the public and private sectors of the national economy. Various interpretations of the fundamental privatization theorem … trends in Russia's de-statization policy in 2010-2013 are analyzed in the context of ‘reluctant privatization', with special …

firms undertake them if incentives are strong enough. -- Privatization ; public sector contracting ; incomplete contracts …