This paper presents an analysis of how government ownership of an enterprise may affect its profitability. In August 1981, two Quebec Crown Corporations announced that they had gained control of Domtar, a private Canadian corporation. Upon receipt of this information the stock's market value...

As British Columbia's provincial government continues to struggle with both deficits and finding ways to constrain spending, there is heightened interest in how wages and non-wage benefits (compensation) in the public sector compare with those in the private sector. While a lack of non-wage...

In the first decades of the twenty-first century – more than 150 years after the earliest franchise contracts were negotiated between Canadian governments and privately owned utility companies, and 30 years after the Economic Council of Canada published John R. Baldwin’s "Regulatory Failure...

One The Control and Performance of State-Owned Enterprises -- Comments -- Two The Performance and Management of United States Federal Government Corporations -- Comments -- Three Privatization at the State and Local Level -- Comments -- Four Privatization in Britain -- Comments -- A Narrative:...