The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Arab Monetary Fund. Abstract While it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) following divestiture, it is argued that many of these studies do not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatizati...

Sixteen years after the promulgation of the reforms to Article 27 that regulates land tenure in Mexico, there is consensus among political authorities, public officials, private investors, and scholars that the outcomes have been completely different than were predicted. In spite of the important changes produced in the legal status, internal organization, and governmental interactions of the a...

In today's high performance NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) multiprocessors with memory hierarchy or distributed memory, the partition and distribution of data associated with parallel computations a ect the amount of parallelism that can be exploited and the amount of data movement in the system. The objective of this research is to study and evaluate compile time data management techni...

Software transactional memory (STM) guarantees that a transaction, consisting of a sequence of operations on the memory, appears to be executed atomically. In practice, it is important to be able to run transactions together with nontransactional legacy code accessing the same memory locations, by supporting privatization. Privatization should be provided without sacrificing the parallelism off...

Privatization of local public services has been implemented worldwide in the last decades. Why local governments privatize has been the subject of much discussion, and many empirical works have been devoted to analyzing the factors that explain local privatization. Such works have found a great diversity of motivations, and the variation among reported empirical results is large. To investigate...

Past economic reform of the state sector in China consisted mainly of privatization, of agriculture and of small and medium-size state enterprises, leaving large state enterprises in the control of the state. Current reform consists of making state-owned enterprises and banks more efficient and functioning like private enterprises, and gradual privatization of some large state enterprises. Bure...

We would like to acknowledge financial support of INSEAD and the University of Texas and the comments of Frank Dobbin and other members of the working group on the International Diffusion of Democracy and Markets. Andrew Spicer has been an important inspiration for many of the ideas in this paper. 2 Abstract The diffusion of economic ideas is often attributed to a homogenization of world cultur...

REQUIRED) The aim of this paper is to highlight empirically some important worldwide differences in the impact of privatization of the fixed-line telecommunications operator on network expansion, tariffs, and efficiency during the 1985-2007 period for a large panel of countries. Our work suggests that the divergent results in the empirical literature on the performance of the privatization refo...