This chapter looks at the UK’s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK’s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks...

WEI Y., LIU X., PARKER D. and VAIDYA K. (1999) The regional distribution of foreign direct investment in China, Reg. Studies 33 , 857-867. This paper analyses the determinants of the regional distribution of both pledged and realized foreign direct investment (FDI) within China. The econometric...

The level of technical efficiency in nine organizations privatized in the UK in the 1980s is assessed. Technical efficiency is measured for a number of years before and after privatization using data envelopment analysis. This non-parametric method allows efficiency to be measured without having...

After the ten Regional Water Authorities (RWAs) of England and Wales were privatized in November 1989, the successor Water and Sewerage Companies (WASCs) faced a new regulatory regime that was designed to promote economic efficiency while simultaneously improving drinking water and environmental...

Already well established in Australia and the USA, REITs are now growing significantly in Asia and Europe. Previous research focusing on US REITs has investigated the impact of Board composition on REIT performance, with a particular focus on agency issues arising from the level of separation of...

International valuation standards have now become an established part of global valuation practice.Definitions of value (such as “market value� and “special value�) have become part of the lexicon of valuation practice, but with limited apparent consideration of the...

Appraisal-based indices for commercial property have been well established for many years, yet it is only in relatively recent times that serious proposals for transaction-based commercial property indices have been put forward. In contrast, in the residential property market, transaction-based...

In recent years, privatization seems to have been more talked about than carried out in a number of countries. This study looks at the progress of privatization in Taiwan in the light of the literature on policy transfer. Although the government of Taiwan announced a privatization programme in...

Since 1978 China has introduced a series of reforms that has gradually moved its economy away from planning and towards more market-based resource allocation. State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) have been permitted to set market prices, retain profits after tax and employ factors of production much...