considerations. They argue that important policy goals like universal service will not be achieved by competition. However, an … my article, I describe a new concept of public-private competition, according to which governments use state owned … possible to extend public-private competition from urban to rural areas, where markets are too small to sustain more than one …

liberalization and their privatization which can be complete or partial such that upstream production is still run by an SOE. We show … in most cases even if a holdup problem exists. For any vertically separated structure we find that privatization through … multi-product firms welfare dominates privatization through single-product firms. -- Privatization ; vertical integration …

a major risk for potential investors. High entry barriers lead to weak competition. Reducing the role of the state in … the economy and WTO membership should be viewed as opportunities to strengthen competition, and hence provide incentives …

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

Privatisierung aus polit-ökonomischen Erwägungen von den jeweiligen Politikern ausgewählt bzw. strukturiert wird, und nicht aus …With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or …