This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives for raising privatization proceeds for a panel of 22 …

my 2010 article, Privatization, Free Riding, and Industry-Expanding Lobbying, in the International Review of Law and … Economics and the plain-English discussion in my 2008 article, Privatization and the Law and Economics of Political Advocacy, in …

hypotheses about how institutions contribute to shape capital's preferences towards pension privatization. In particular, I study … privatization, while employers may have a much more ambivalent attitude. The argument is tested using a comparative historical …

public provision. What explains this wave of reversals in pension privatization, but also variation in its outcomes …? Proponents of pension privatization had argued that it would boost domestic capital markets and economic growth. By revealing how … pension privatization helped increase sovereign debt and how large a part of pension funds' assets was invested in government …

International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …

on specific political mechanisms: we study legislative bargaining, lobbying, and electoral competition, as well as the …