Leviathan resists: The endogenous relationship between privatization and firm performance

Public Choice

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 185-204

  Arin, K Peren ^a,b   Ulubaşoǧlu, Mehmet Ali ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Firm performance; Privatization; Simultaneous equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349921338     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-009-9418-y     Document Type: Article

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