In 2004 the Austrian-based OMV acquired in a privatization process 51% of the Romanian national oil company Petrom. Two … and a half years later this privatization is again in the focus of political attention in Romania. The current government …. The whole issue of privatization is on the agenda. This paper investigates the privatization of Petrom in its historical …

We review previous literature on productivity spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and conduct our … own analysis using a crosssection of firm data. We find that the evidence of FDI spillovers on the productivity of Chinese … FDI. Attempting over 2500 specifications which take into account forward and backward linkages, we find no evidence of …

Post-privatization restructuring of former state-owned enterprises (FSOEs) encompasses both shorter-run "defensive …

This text tries to assess the relation between the privatization and transnationalization processes in the Portuguese … economy in the last two decades of the 20th century and the early 2151 century. It concludes that the privatization process …

of an FDI-attracting privatization. On the other hand, it may prevent a welfare-reducing investment by the foreign firm …In this paper, we provide an explanation of why privatization may attract foreign investors willing to enter a regional … market. Privatization turns the formerly-public firm into a less aggressive competitor since prot-maximizing output is lower …

In 2004 the Austrian-based OMV acquired in a privatization process 51% of the Romanian national oil company Petrom. Two … and a half years later this privatization is again in the focus of political attention in Romania. The current government …. The whole issue of privatization is on the agenda. This paper investigates the privatization of Petrom in its historical …

This paper questions the determinants of infrastructure privatization in Djibouti and seeks to explain why this policy … is still implemented today. Through case studies, the paper analyses the privatization processes of the port, electricity …, and railway sectors. The paper shows that privatization has four major determinants: the presence of favourable contingent …

the absorptive capacity of Italian firms arising from inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Given the peculiar …

We review previous literature on productivity spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China and conduct our … own analysis using a cross--section of firm data. We find that the evidence of FDI spillovers on the productivity of … endogeneity of FDI. Attempting over 2500 specifications which take into account forward and backward linkages, we find no evidence …