Objective:Privatization is considered as one of the most important components of new public management with its pros and cons. However, privatization has been accepted and implemented as a policy in the whole political and economic system of Iran, but the barriers and dysfunctions of privatization policy implementation has reduced its effectiveness and efficiency in solving the problems of the ...

This study examined the accuracy between extension professionals and farmers regarding their perceptions of privatization and commercialization of agricultural extension services. The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria and it had a sample size of 224 respondents comprising of 134 extension professionals of the Delta State Agricultural Programme (DTADP) and 90 farmers that were random...

This paper offers a theory of how the degree of corruption that prevails in a society responds to changes in the ownership structure of major public service providers. We show that there are cases where private ownership, even though it fosters investments in infrastructure, also opens the door to more corruption. The public dissatisfaction towards privatization is crucially affected by this de...

This paper determines the equilibrium market structure in a mixed international oligopoly, where the state assets are sold at an auction. The model suggests that low greenÞeld costs and low trade costs induce foreign acquisitions. The intuition is that domestic Þrms can then not prevent foreign Þrms from becoming strong competitors and thus, their willingness to pay for the state assets is low....

In practice, governments often retain some shares in the ...rms they privatize, the ensuing pro...t distributions being an additional source of revenue. We show for a two-...rm di¤erentiated-product oligopoly how partial state ownership may a¤ect ...rms’ subsequent investment and output behavior. Hence, we determine the optimum retained state ownership share under both Bertrand and Cournot comp...

The 'failure' of privatization in Latin America has recently become the source of street riots, protest demonstrations and adverse news coverage. Riots in Arequipa, Peru erupted in June 2002 following announcement of a proposal to privatize power plants, while Cochabamba, Bolivia witnessed a 'Water War' in the streets in April 2000. Antiprivatization protests also occurred recently in Ecuador a...

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukrain...