In this paper, we provide an explanation of why privatization may attract foreign investorsinterested in entering a … regional market. Privatization turns the formerly-public firm into a lessaggressive competitor since profit- maximizing output …/subsidycompetition for FDI before and after privatization. We show that policy competition isirrelevant in the presence of a public firm …

The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce … than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …

firms. First,accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operatingperformance of … different to private counterparts. Overallresults, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was not as successful as it …

volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The … cooperatives and religious institutions, where formal hiring methods are not common. Interestingly, the differences in hiring and …