We analyse politically motivated privatization design in a bipartisan environment where politicians lack commitment … power. Suppose the median class voters a priori favour redistributive policies. If the privatization programme succeeds in …, the larger the necessary underpricing. When inequalities are large this leads to voucher privatization. Shifting the …

state, post-communist privatization and other situations. …

. The vast majority advocate some combination of privatization and elimination or relaxation of the delivery monopoly. Those …

Privatization of local government services is assumed to deliver cost savings but empirical evidence for this from … around the world is mixed. We conduct a meta-regression analysis of all econometric studies examining privatization for water …

The paper aims at acknowledging the efficiency effects of bank privatization upon the entry of strategic foreign …

The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce … than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …