Journal Article
Review essay on \"Privatopia\" and the Public Good by Evan McKenzie, 1994
Roberds, William (1995-05)
In Privatopia, Evan McKenzie documents the history and legal structure of common interest developments, a form of residential community organization. McKenzie also looks at possible explanations for the rising popularity of these organizations despite the fact that their governing associations may impose more onerous restrictions on residents' behavior than municipal governments do. In this essay, the reviewer discusses McKenzie's explanations and adds his own based on an appreciation of the underlying economic forces that have shaped these types of communities. The reviewer concludes that ...
Economic Review , Volume 80 , Issue May , Pages 32-36

Report
Privatization's impact on private productivity: the case of Brazilian iron ore
Teixeira, Arilton; Schmitz, James A. (2004)
A major motivation for the wave of privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last twenty years was a belief that privatization would increase economic efficiency. There are now many studies showing most privatizations achieved this goal. Our theme is that the productivity gains from privatization are much more general and widespread than has typically been recognized in this literature. In assessing the productivity gains from privatization, the literature has only examined the productivity gains accruing at the privatized SOEs. But privatization may have significant impact on ...
Staff Report , Paper 337

Journal Article
Fiscal pressures and the privatization of local services
Kodrzycki, Yolanda (1998-01)
The privatization movement appears to have lost some momentum in the United States over the 1990s. Although local governments continue to look for ways to deliver services more efficiently by using private contractors, the pace at which they are issuing contracts has slowed. In part, the trends may reflect political realities. Public employees naturally are concerned about losing their jobs, and they constitute a sizable share of the electorate. The limited role of outside contractors may also reflect economic pragmatism, especially in the face of greater scrutiny of past efforts to privatize ...
New England Economic Review , Issue Jan , Pages 39-50

Journal Article
Sidebar : the privatization wave
Gerena, Charles (2003-04)
Econ Focus , Volume 7 , Issue Spr , Pages 14

Journal Article
Examining social security privatization in Latin America
Kay, Stephen J. (1998-10)
Economics Update , Issue Oct , Pages 2-3

Journal Article
Privatization of local public services: lessons for New England
Kodrzycki, Yolanda (1994-05)
As governments consider ways to provide public services more efficiently, privatization can seem like an attractive option. Yet the subject engenders sharp controversies. In New England, local governments generally have not engaged in as much privatization as those in other parts of the country. ; This article examines the evidence on the relative merits of privatizing public services and attempts to determine whether these costs and benefits actually appear to explain local government behavior throughout the United States. The limited scope of privatization by New England local governments ...
New England Economic Review , Issue May , Pages 31-46

Journal Article
Privatizing U.S. Social Security: some possible effects on intergenerational equity and the economy
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. (1998-03)
Review , Issue Mar , Pages 31-37

Working Paper
The effects of social security privatization on household saving: evidence from the Chilean experience
Coronado, Julia Lynn (1998)
In recent years, a handful of countries have converted the financing of their social security systems from pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) to partial or full funding. Privatization is viewed as one way to insulate social security from the political and demographic pressures that currently threaten the financial stability of PAYGO systems. However, privatization would improve a nation's situation only if such a reform increases domestic saving. In this paper I use evidence from Chile, where social security was privatized in 1981, to assess the impact of such a reform on household saving rates. I find ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1998-12

Conference Paper
It's High Time to Privatize: Panel Discussion
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. (1997)
Conference Series ; [Proceedings]

Journal Article
Social Security and Medicare: no free lunch
Viard, Alan D.; Saving, Jason L. (2005-01)
Southwest Economy , Issue Jan , Pages 1, 8-12