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     privatisation studies

This page highlights the privatisation and deregulation of telecommunication network operators.

Poijts of entry to the literature include 'Economic perspectives on privatization' by John Vickers & George Yarrow in 5(2) Journal of Economic Perspectives (1991) 111-132 and their Privatization: An Economic Analysis, (Cambridge: MIT Press 1988), William Megginson's The Financial Economics of Privatization (New York: Oxford Uni Press 2005) and his 'History and Methods of Privatization' in International Handbook on Privatization (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2003) edited by David Parker & David Saal, Privatisation in the European Union (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic 2003) by Judith Clifton, Francisco Comín & Daniel Díaz Fuentes, Privatization in Western Europe: Pressures, Problems and Paradoxes (London: Pinter 1994) edited by Vincent Wright, Constraints and Impacts of Privatization (London: Routledge 1993) edited by Vemuri Ramanadham, Privatization: Social Science Themes and Perspectives (Aldershot: Dartmouth 1996) edited by Derek Braddon & Deborah Foster, Shrinking the State: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1999) by Harvey Feigenbaum, Jeffrey Henig & Chris Hamnett, Privatization and Economic Performance (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 1994) by Matthew Bishop, John Kay & Colin Mayer and 'The Political Underpinnings of Privatization: a typology' by Feigenbaum & Henig in 46(1) World Politics (1994) 185-208.


     telecommunications

For BT see John Harper's Monopoly & Competition in British Telecommunications (London: Pinter 1997), Cento Veljanovski's Selling the State - Privatisation in Britain (London: Weidenfield & Nicolson 1988), Massimo Florio's 2001 paper The Welfare Impact of a Privatization: The British Telecom Case-History and John Turk's British Telecommunications plc: Privatisation and the Dynamics of Corporatre and Industrial Culture (PDF).

A perspective is provided by the 2001 Asian Development Bank Special Evaluation Study on the Privatisation of Public Sector Enterprises: Lessons for Developing Countries (PDF). Although dated, insights are provided in Rexford Ahene & Bernard Katz' Privatization and Investment in SubSaharan Africa (New York: Praeger 1992).

For Latin America in particular Luigi Manzetti's Privatization South American Style (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 1999), Robert Hughes' 2002 Privatization and Modernization of Telecommunications in Latin America paper, Walter Molano's The Logic of Privatization: The Case of Telecommunications in the Southern Cone of Latin America (Westport: Greenwood Press 1997), Ravi Ramamurti's Privatizing Monopolies: Lessons From The Telecommunication & Transport Sectors in Latin America (Baltimore: John Hopkins Uni Press 1996), JP Singh's Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring (Albany: State Uni Press of NY 1999), Judith Clifton's The Politics of Telecommunications in Mexico: Privatization And State-Labour Relations, 1982-95 (New York: St Martin's 2000) and Raimundo Beca's Privatization, Deregulation and Beyond: Trends in Telecommunication in Some Latin American Countries (Washington: ECLAC 1991).

For Germany see the suggestive 'Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany (Research Institute of Applied Economics Working Paper 2006/7)' by Germà Bel.

For the banking sector see William Megginson's 2004 'The Economics of Bank Privatization' (here)

The First Privatisation: The Politicians, the City, and the Denationalisation of Steel (London: Historians Press 1988) by Kathleen Burk

Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (Cheltenham: Elgar 2008) edited by James Reveley & Malcolm Tull, 'Port Privatisation: Objectives, Extent, Process and the UK Experience' by Alfred Baird in 2(3) International Journal of Maritime Economics (2000) 177-194, 'Globalization, Privatisation and Restructuring of Ports' (PDF) by Marc Juhel in 3 International Journal of Maritime Economics (2001) 139-174, Devolution, Port Governance and Port Performance (JAI Press 2006) edited by Mary Brooks & Kevin Cullinane and 'Port Privatization: A Historical and Public Administration Perspective' by Jean Grosdidier de Matons in Privatizing Transportation Systems (Westport: Praeger 1996) edited by Simon Hakim & Paul Seidenstat.





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