There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises … of telecommunication firms around the world, 4 years before and 4 years after privatization, using two parallel measures … could corroborate stronger evidence for or against maintained hypothesis of performance improvements after privatization …

and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme …

This paper examines the fiscal impact of privatization revenues in 47 developing countries. There are many reasons that … privatization is attractive for the central government of developing countries. If substantial, these revenues from the sale of … state owned enterprises can present a potential solution to persistent deficits. On the other hand, the privatization …

mass privatization program) creates severe supply-and-demand shocks for enterprises, inducing firm failure. This leads to a …

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … large firms privatized in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). We find that concentrated foreign …

This paper explores the effect of mass privatization and the development of a new private sector in Russia on the wage … rather than increased efficiency due to privatization, although the evidence is inconclusive on this point. …

regional differences in early privatization as instruments to estimate the effect of small enterprises on income distribution …. Early privatization is a plausible source of variation in small enterprises because it can either foster or deter entry and ….25 percentage points in the Russian regions between 1995 and 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more …