Previous empirical literature suggests that privatization choices are driven by ideology. However, available measures of this political bias are weakly-grounded as they neglect crucial factors affecting privatizations, such as the liberalization levels and the public finance structure. To fill...

We empirically investigate the political determinants of liberalization and privatization policies in six network industries of 30 OECD countries (1975–2007). We unbundle liberalization and privatization reforms and study their simultaneous determination in a two-equation model. Unlike...

We empirically investigate the political determinants of deregulation policies in six network industries of 30 OECD countries over 1975-2007. We unbundle privatization and liberalization and propose an econometric study in which we allow for the joint adoption of the two policies by governments....