-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated … within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

subject of this study is the analysis of network industries with particular emphasis on privatization in this field in general … is threefold. The chapter on privatization is based on a theoretical model, followed by a chapter on the institutional …

, formerly state-owned socialist firms in East Germany were privatized by the Treuhand, which came at the cost of massive job …

privatization of security goods. …