Purpose – This paper aims to re‐examine both the short‐ and long‐term performance of UK privatisations, with specific reference to the comparative performance of utility privatisations with non‐utility privatisations and private sector initial public offerings (IPOs)....

Purpose – This paper aims to re-examine both the short- and long-term performance of UK privatisations, with specific reference to the comparative performance of utility privatisations with non-utility privatisations and private sector initial public offerings (IPOs)....