Title: Public versus private ownership
First published: 2000
Description: Disappointment with insider trading in Russia, with voucher privatization in the Czech Republic, and with the privatization of infrastructure in many developing countries  has spawned new critiques of privatization. How do theory and empirical evidence answer the much-debated questions, which is more important to performance, competition or private ownership? Are state enterprises more subject to welfare-reducing interventions by government than private firms are? Do state enterprises suffer more from problems of corporate governance?
Subjects: Government ownership, Privatization, Competition
Places: Eastern Europe, Developing countries
LC classification: HG3881.5.W57