privatization policies as a possible source of cross-country dispersion in growth outcomes. They suggest that, despite extensive … liberalization and privatization in the OECD area, the cross-country variation of regulatory settings has increased in recent years … its cross-country variance. Regressing MFP on both economywide indicators of regulation and privatization and industry …

--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web …"Beck, Cull, and Jerome assess the effect of privatization on performance in a panel of Nigerian banks for the period …