Privatization promotes economic efficiency and growth, thereby reinforcing macroeconomic adjustment. In the short run … impacts and the fiscal implications of privatization. It then reviews various methods of privatization and finds that public …` options for mitigating the social impact of privatization are surveyed, and experiences under adjustment programs reviewed …

This paper reviews a selection of studies on privatization experiences in transition countries. Empirical studies … is reviewed, along with the question of whether privatization efforts support or hinder de novo private sector …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on … sales to foreign and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although …

privatization in different countries. The discussed effects include: effects on consumers, tax-payers, workers, shareholders; on …

almost independent products or products that are close substitutes. Privatization of the public firm is socially beneficial …

This paper empirically analyzes the political and economic objectives underlying privatization on the stock market … on the issue. The paper has two main findings. Fist, larger initial returns occurred in the early stages of privatization …

-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data … on several network industries and find that privatization can account for a significant proportion of the fall of labor …

spite of a wave of crises and recessions in the late 1990s and early 2000s). Privatization has made a great deal of progress …