The Challenges of Privatization: An International Analysis

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Bernardo Bortolotti (, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Turin) Domenico Siniscalco (, Director General of the Treasury, Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance, and Professor of Economics, University of Turin)

The Challenges of Privatization

An International Analysis

Bernardo Bortolotti (, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Turin), Domenico Siniscalco (, Director General of the Treasury, Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance, and Professor of Economics, University of Turin)

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Oxford University Press
01 March 2004

Politics & government; Political economy; Privatisation; Laws of Specific jurisdictions

From 1997 to 2001, more than 4,000 privatization operations have been carried out in more than 100 countries, bringing in government revenues of over 1,362 billion dollars. The phenomenon, which grew exponentially at the end of the 1990s and then abruptly slowed down, had dramatic consequences on the performance of state-owned enterprises and a significant impact on industrialized countries, as well as emerging and less developed economies. Yet there have been surprisingly few attempts to provide a systematic empirical account of the privatization process at the worldwide level.

Why do governments privatize? Why do some countries accomplish large-scale privatization programmes, and others never privatize at all? Is privatization a trend or a cycle? Furthermore, how do governments privatize? Do governments really transfer ownership and control of state-owned enterprises or does private ownership tend to coexist with public control?

This book provides some answers to these important questions trying to test research hypotheses set forth by the recent economic theory of privatization. Comprehensive cross-country empirical analyses carried out over a period of more than twenty years are used in the book to show that privatization has taken place all over the world, sometimes spontaneously, more often under the pressure of economic and budgetary constraints. Several of the goals of the privatization have been met, but despite proclamations and programmes, only a small minority of countries has carried out a genuine privatization process, completely transferring ownership of state-owned enterprises to the private sector. A lack of political will is to some extent at the root of this reluctance. However this reluctance can be traced back partly to structural factors that would make an orderly privatization difficult, such as the absence of developed capital markets, appropriate regulation, and suitable institutions.

By: Bernardo Bortolotti ( Assistant Professor of Economics University of Turin), Domenico Siniscalco (, Director General of the Treasury, Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance, and Professor of Economics, University of Turin)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 401g
ISBN: 9780199249343
ISBN 10: 0199249342
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 01 March 2004
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1: The Economic Theory of Privatization 2: Privatization Around the World 3: The Determinants of Privatization 4: How do Governments Privatize? 5: Private Ownership, Public Control 6: Privatizing Monopolies Conclusions Appendix I: Data and Methodology Appendix 2: Importing Investor Protection Appendix 3: Golden Shares Around the World

Bernardo Bortolotti is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Turin. He obtained a PhD in economics from the Catholic University of Louvain, and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Siena. He is co-ordinator of the research unit 'Privatization, Regulation, Antitrust' at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan. His research interests are in privatization, regulation, corporate governance, and auction theory. His work has been published in several international journals, such as the Journal of Public Economics, the International Review of Finance, and Telecommunication Policy. In 2002 he was made Secretary of the Italian Global Advisory Committee on Privatization. Domenico Siniscalco is the Director General of the Treasury of the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Turin and former Managing Director of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He obtained a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University. He has published extensively in refereed journals in the fields of applied microeconomics, game theory, industrial organization, environmental economics, privatization, and corporate governance. He has sat on the Boards of several privatized companies.