—the current regional recession. In short, privatization shares in the criticism directed at the entire liberalization process …. Within this context, accurate knowledge of privatization’s real consequences can be of considerable value. While research has … been conducted on certain economic effects, less is known about privatization’s broader social consequences. This chapter …

This paper analyses the case of the privatization of the Spanish tobacco monopoly, focusing on the period between 1887 … concerned with two different issues. First, it deals with the effects of privatization on accountability.The main question …

performance after privatization in the Czech Republic. We find weak evidence for the presence of managerial incentives: only in … 1997, three to four years after privatization, does poor performance significantly increase the probability of managerial …

changes in the relative importance of specific issues. Privatization no longer occupies a central role in the public policy …

In the last decades, transitional countries of Central and Eastern Europe have engaged in strong privatization programs … privatization and thus adopting a profit-maximizing criterion defines its production plans, when an appropriate regulatory …

This paper uses individual worker and municipal information to examine privatization's influence on the wages of … construction laborers receive a wage premium in the absence of privatization, and privatization is associated with an erosion of … a non-trivial public sector discount in the absence of privatization and only the wage differential of physicians erodes …