Privatisation Performance in Major European Countries Since 1980

Major theoretical approaches stress the superiority of privately-owned over state-owned companies without addressing how corporate performance should best be measured. This book investigates performance of both private and state-owned, applying factor analysis to compare the two states.

Autorentext
MOTASAM TATAHI is Lecturer in Economics at he University of London (SOAS), UK. His areas of expertise include the problems of economic adjustments particularly privatization in major European countries. His teaching features comparative economic systems, macroeconomics, econometrics, data analysis and quantitative methods for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Inhalt
List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Public Versus Private Ownership Theory and Performance Literature Review of Public and Private Ownership: Strengths and Weaknesses Why Factor Analysis? Results from the Empirical Study: Part I Results from the Empirical Study: Part II Summary and General Conclusions