This paper investigates airport privatization by two countries. Each country has a (gateway) hub airport a local airport. In each country, a hub carrier operates hub-local and international hub-hub flights, and a regional carrier also operates hub-local flights and forms and alliance with the...

The privatization neutrality theorem states that the share of public ownership in an enterprise does not affect welfare (i.e., any degree of privatization is optimal) under optimal tax-subsidy policy. We revisit this neutrality result. First, we investigate the case in which the private...

This paper investigates the relationship between partial privatization and the entry of private firms. The effects of foreign private firms' entry on a public firm's output and on the home country's welfare are different from well known results, if the public firm is partially privatized....

We discuss optimal privatization policies in mixed oligopolies in which a public firm is the Stackelberg follower (private leadership). We find that under constant marginal cost, the optimal degree of privatization is zero. When the marginal cost is increasing, however, the optimal degree is...