Social Costs of Mass Privatization

Privatization when Workers Control Firms: Mass Privatization versus MEBO

Evolution of Mass Privatization in Bulgaria

Mass Privatization, Management Control and Efficiency

We present a model where a government chooses the number of individuals to which ownership in a former state-owned firm shall be allocated. When making this decision the government maximizes the political support it gets from the firm’s incumbent manager and from potential shareholders, anticipating that a greater dispersion of shares reduces the control of the manager by the firm’s new owners....

Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?

The economic literature shows that privatizing Social Security can improve labor supply incentives, but it can also reduce risk sharing when households face uninsurable risks. We simulate a stylized 50-percent privatization with transaction costs financed by consumption taxes and examined its impact on macroeconomic variables as well as on the welfare across generations and income classes. Our ...

Social Security privatization in Latin America.

The new, partially privatized social security system adopted by Chile in 1981 has attracted attention in many parts of the world. Since then, a number of Latin American countries have implemented the Chilean model, with some variations: either with a single- or multi-tier system, or with a period of transition to take care of those in the labor force at the time of the change. The single-tier v...