distinguishes two aspects of privatization interacting with market opening: privatization of a firm and privatization of its …

-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … labour share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data … on several network industries and find that privatization can account for a significant proportion of the fall of labour …

development. These reforms included stock market liberalization, privatization programs, and the establishment of regulatory and …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28 percent in … it about 4 percent. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44 percent) and is …

Comprehensive panel data on privatization transactions and labor productivity in Romanian industrial corporations are … used to describe the post-privatization ownership structure, and to estimate the effect of Romania's diverse privatization … transfers and mass privatization are estimated to have significantly smaller-although still positive-effects on firm performance. …

We analyze the role of privatization in creating a constituency for economic reform, markets, and democratic … privatization, we find positive effects for participants retaining shares, but little impact of participation alone. Our simulations …