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Privatization in Eastern Europe: Irreversibility and Critical Mass Effects

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Roland, Gérard
Verdier, Thierry

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This paper proposes a model to shed light on two important policy features of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: the idea of a necessary critical mass of privatization on the one hand, and the difficulties encountered in the actual privatization process on the other, related to the government's inability to precommit to announced policies. The main ingredient of the model is the existence of a positive externality related to the size of the private sector, providing at the same time a rationale for the idea of a critical mass, but also creating a coordination problem generating multiple equilibria. This paper also shows how the distribution of free shares to the population currently advocated in Eastern Europe, may credibly make the privatizations irreversible, without completely solving the coordination problem, and even worsening in some cases, the welfare outcome.

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Keywords: Credibility; Critical Mass; Eastern Europe; Economies of Scale; Multiple Equilibria; Privatization;

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D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
L59 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Other
P50 - Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - General

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