Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Overview
6. 1. Privatization and Corporate Governance 13
7. 2. Antitrust Merger Policy: Lessons from the Australian Experience 35
8. 3. Using Markets to Help Solve Public Problems 73
9. II. Country Studies
10. 4. Recent Developments in the Public-Enterprise Sector of Korea 95
11. 5. The Korean Economic Crisis and Corporate Governance System 129
12. 6. Sources of Corporate Financing and Economic Crisis in Korea: Micro-Evidence 159
13. 7. Initial Public Offering and Corporate Governance in China’s Transitional Economy 185
14. 8. Why Do Governments Dump State Enterprises? Evidence from China 211
15. 9. Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization: The Case Study of Garment and Metal-Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region 231
16. 10. Government Commitment and the Outcome of Privatization in China 251
17. III. Sectoral Privatization and Regulation
18. 11. Rail Reform Strategies: The Australian Experience 279
19. 12. The Japanese Experience with Railway Restructuring 305
20. 13. What Has Been Achieved in the Japanese Telecommunications Industry since 1985? 343
21. 14. How to Restructure Failed Banking Systems: Lessons from the United States in the 1930s and Japan in the 1990s 375
22. 15. Banks, Bailout Guarantees, and Risky Debt 425
23. Contributors 457
24. Author Index 461
25. Subject Index 465