Privatisation in Ireland
Subtitle: lessons from a European economy
By: Do nal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
Contributors: Reeves, Eoin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780230248922
Subjects: Privatization; Economic policy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance; Government business enterprises; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance
Other titles: Privatization in Ireland
Description: "This book analyses privatisation in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last 30 years. It examines the effects of privatisation in terms of corporate performance, public finances and the distributional aspects of privatisation including the impact on employment and share ownership"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Privatisation in Europe; title: Privatisation objectivs: theory and evidence; title: Public enterprise and privatisation in Ireland; title: Privatisation and performance in Ireland; title: The financial costs of privatisation; title: Employee share ownership plans; title: Telecommunications: a tale of privatisation failure; title: Naturalisation of the Irish banking sector; title: Lessons from privatisation and the future of SOEs.