this sector has been due to external factors of change such as privatization processes that took place mainly during the … factors: privatization and technological advances. In order to understand privatizations in economic policies carried out in … with Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and Index of Malmquist. The results indicate that the process of privatization and …

The argument behind increasing privatization of public firms in developing and transition economies is that profit … privatization leads to a better outcome in terms of environmental performance and welfare maximization than a state-owned monopoly …

We empirically investigate the political determinants of liberalization and privatization policies in six network … industries of 30 OECD countries (1975–2007). We unbundle liberalization and privatization reforms and study their simultaneous … common trend under the so-called neo-liberalism wave. However, although the privatization rate is higher than liberalization …

We investigate the connection between privatization in post-communist Russia and a mass privatization reform in … Stolypin reform to contemporary views on whether the privatization of the 1990s should be revised. These historical measures … could influence contemporary views in two ways: first, differences in privatization-related conflicts in the past could have …

We investigate whether or not privatization is beneficial from the viewpoint of social welfare in a monopolistic … competition model. We discuss the relationship between the welfare effects of privatization and the degree of foreign direct … and Central and Eastern European countries. We find that, in the long run, privatization of a public firm is more likely …