distinguishes two aspects of privatization interacting with market opening: privatization of a firm and privatization of its …

-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network industries (e.g. telecommunications and utilities). We present a model … labour 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 labour …

privatization, but most respondents prefer to leave firms in private hands. We examine who wants to revise privatization and why …. Respondents with poor human capital and few assets support revising privatization due to a preference for state over private … property. Economic hardships during transition increase support for revising privatization due to the perceived unfairness of …

nationalization is inefficient it does occur in equilibrium when oil prices are high. The model's predictions are consistent with the … panel analysis of a comprehensive dataset on nationalizations in the oil industry since 1960. Nationalization is more likely …

nationalization rather than privatization is that it avoids selection bias due to cherry-picking by firms or governments at the time … of privatization. Indeed, nationalization in Uruguay affected all private firms, as water was declared "part of the …, water quality, and health outcomes of Uruguay's nationalization of water services. An important advantage of focusing on …

This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization … intermediate suppliers and investors have also clearly benefited during the short privatization duration. However the paper also …

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 …