Privatization in Poland What was the government trying to achieve?1

Gianni De Fraja and Barbara Roberts

The Economics of Transition, 2009, vol. 17, issue 3, 531-557

Abstract: This article uses the sequencing of privatization to infer the objective pursued by the Polish government in the privatization of its large manufacturing firms in the second half of the 1990s. We construct a model of mixed oligopoly and use it to evaluate the privatization process; our analysis is based on the assumption that firms which furthered the government's objective function the most would be chosen to be privatized first. Based on the features of the firms that were chosen for early privatization, our empirical analysis suggests that welfare maximization was more important than the desire to maximize the revenues from privatization and the government's budget or to minimize employment losses.

Date: 2009
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Working Paper: Privatisation in Poland: What Was the Government Trying to Achieve? (2007)
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