Entry, Exit, Efficiency and the Question of Privatization: The Case of Bangladesh

Tanweer Akram
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Tanweer Akram: Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, USA

Bangladesh Development Studies, 2000, vol. 26, issue 1, 163-169

Abstract: This paper relates the issue of privatization of public enterprises (that is, the transfer of ownership and control of state owned firms to the private sector) with firm's entry, exit, and efficiency. The first section provides an overview of firm entry and exit and briefly reviews the empirical findings in industrial organization literature concerning firm entry and exit. The second section presents the findings of Sen's (1997) survey of privatized firms in Bangladesh and interprets the findings in light of industrial organization literatu

Keywords: Privatization; Business entities; Manufacturing industries; Development studies; Industrial machinery; Business liquidation; Industrial economics; Industrial plants; Industrial efficiency; Public ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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