Privatisation shocks and aggregate output: testing for macroeconomic transmission channels

Emanuele Bacchiocchi and Massimo Florio

No unimi-1001, UNIMI - Research Papers in Economics, Business, and Statistics from Universitá degli Studi di Milano

Abstract: In this paper we test the empirical evidence of an impact of privatisation on output in the UK , through macroeconomic transmission channels. While most privatisation studies focus on microeconomic shocks, namely at firms' level, we are interested to see whether a large scale privatisation policy, as the one pursued in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s , had a measurable impact on output. This may contribute to the ex post evaluation of this policy and complement the microeconomic evidence. We use quartely data from 1979 to 1998 (covering the Thatcher and Major governments) of privatisation proceeds, as our impulse policy variable, and of private consumption, gross fixed capital formation, net government expenditures, as transmission channels, and aggregate output as our final response variable. The econometric methodology is based on Structural Vector Auto-regressive models and Impulse Response Functions. Non-stationarity and cointegration properties of the time series have also been considered. We find that privatisation shocks do not have an impact in the consumption-output model, have a moderate and not persistent impact in the investment and the public expenditures models.

Keywords: privatisation in Great Britain; macroeconomic impact of policy reforms; structural VAR analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-04-13
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