telecommunications industry, the deregulation of the Swedish taxi and postal industries, Californian telecommunications i …

firms undertake them if incentives are strong enough. -- Privatization ; public sector contracting ; incomplete contracts …

effect on non-contractible quality. The model is applied to understanding the costs and benefits of prison privatization …

A common argument against privatization is that private providers will self-interestedly lobby to increase the size of … their market. In this Article, I evaluate this argument, using, as a case study, the argument against prison privatization … conclude that there is at present no particular reason to credit this argument. Even without privatization, actors in the …

I show that political ideology was critical in shaping China's privatization wave around 2000. Based on belief … fundamental impetus for privatization and demonstrates ideology's substantial impact on corporate ownership structure …

Privatisierung aus polit-ökonomischen Erwägungen von den jeweiligen Politikern ausgewählt bzw. strukturiert wird, und nicht aus …With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or …