We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...

Finland's state-enterprise sector has been larger than in most countries and included several manufacturing companies. These were usually established because of a scarcity of private venture capital, with a mission to contribute to industrialisation. Some companies have now been privatised in a...

This paper assesses the role of the Contractor-General in public procurement and the utility of the office in the anticorruption project. The author also examine other initiatives such as anticorruption clauses in procurement contracts, codes of ethics, declaration of assets by public servants,...

This article argues that it is possible to distinguish between the utility of different institutional structures by comparing the quality service that each typed delivers. As the executive agencies of the new public management are considered to be different from the traditional public sector...

This paper is an attempt to evaluate the application of Corporate Governance framework issue within Public domain. It is an attempt to quantify the compliance of Greek companies with international best practices

This paper analyses the use of Services of General Economic Interest to which general access under equal conditions has been recognised as key for social and territorial cohesion by European policy-makers. In order to do so, citizens' preferences with respect to these services are analysed...

Este trabajo se enmarca en los análisis de los cambios producidos en la eficiencia productiva de una empresa pública cuando ésta se privatiza, en el sentido de que su control efectivo pasa a manos de inversores privados. El caso concreto de estudio aquí es la empresa Ensidesa, que...

After a long period in which state-led development was the dominant economic paradigm, since the 1980s private sector development has been the focus for economic policy makers. It is probably no coincidence that economic growth, stagnant for a few decades in much of the developing world, took...

We study the impact on consumers of privatization and liberalization in the telecommunication sector for 15 EU Countries. Policy reforms are summarized by the OECD regulatory indicators (REGREF), that consider the extent of privatization, vertical disintegration, and market entry. After...