privatization in China and Slovenia, the mass introduction of funded pension systems in the 1990s, changes of the voting rules in …

Considering a differentiated mixed duopoly we show that when privatization and pollution tax are used together … environmental damage will be non-monotone in the level of privatization, and optimal privatization is always partial privatization …. Whether privatization will improve the environment or not depends on the public firm's concern for environment. If the public …

costs function. By doing so, we show that in a duopoly, partial privatization does not change the socially optimal character …

This paper examines the impact of privatization on gender discrimination in China across firms with different … them from firms that were later privatized. The main results show that privatization was associated with an increase in …

We examine whether consumers have benefited from bank privatization worldwide and find that bank spreads are … significantly higher in the post privatization period than in the pre-privatization period, suggesting that bank customers have not … benefited from bank privatization. However, we observe that the increase in net interest margin occurred in the developed …

Much has been written about the current trend toward privatization of public enterprises. Selling Public Enterprises is …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …