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A Theoretical Reexamination of Privatization: Assessing its Welfare Impacts

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Alvin Ang
Masatoshi Yamada
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Privatization has been one of the significant public policies adopted in the last two decades. Previous studies have focussed on efficacy gains at the firm and industry levels. This paper intends to reconsider the distributive impacts of privatization on the economy as a whole from a theoretical perspective. Specifically, it supposes an economy with two goods, two producers and two consumers, in which it is assumed that one of the consumers is not able to obtain one good that is regarded as a necessity. Since one basis of government intervention is to provide necessity to people who would not otherwise be able to obtain it, government intervention into production is assumed to satisfy this purpose. Using comparative statics, the paper analyzes how the welfare of two consumers is affected by this intervention, and shows that intervention can increase the welfare of some consumers and social welfare in general. Copyright © 2007 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Volume (Year): 11 (2007)
Issue (Month): 4 (November)
Pages: 723-736
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