The different approaches to large-scale privatization in Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic imply somewhat … privatization strategies could affect macroeconomic performance and the development of constituencies in favor of or against …

varies across regions. We study the effects of privatization, the importance of different types of owners, the effects of …

Using panel data of 19 developed economies in the period 1985-2000, we show that share issue privatization (SIP …

Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … policies (1990-98 for roughly 50 countries), this Paper investigates the political economy determinants of privatization and …

This paper examines the role of liability for past environmental contamination in the privatization processes of … hypotheses regarding a privatization agency’s responses to the investor’s knowledge of cleanup costs. The empirical section of …

Privatization is shown to increase national economic output in a two-sector full-employment general-equilibrium model …, or stabilization. The static output gain from reallocation and reorganization through privatization is captured in a …. Substitution of plausible parameter values into the formula indicates that, in practice, the static output gain from privatization …

In Latin America, privatization started earlier and spread farther and more rapidly than in almost any other part of …, privatization is highly and increasingly unpopular in the region. The core social criticism is that privatization contributes to … studies dilute or counter the negative views, concluding that privatization has contributed only slightly to rising …