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 …

contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

competition is important for promoting economic growth. Recognising the benefits of competition, the government wants to introduce … regulatory reforms to stimulate economic growth. However, the promotion of competition has often conflicted with other policy … competition in a number of sectors, resulting in high prices, weak innovative activity and inefficient resource allocation …

. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance …. France is catching up with best practice in competition policy reform. However, other policy considerations often hamper the … emergence of effective competition. Relatively weak competitive pressures remain in a number of sectors, particularly in …

competition among public and private suppliers. The paper lays out an analytical framework identifying the inherent incentive and …

Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of … competition in their infrastructure industries while others do not? Why did the pace of adoption accelerate in the 1990s? Building … on neo-institutional theory in sociology, we argue that the domestic adoption of market-oriented reforms is strongly …