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Learning, competition, or emulation?: The time-dependent diffusion of privatization in OECD countries, 1980-2019

Starting in the early 1980s, advanced democracies increasingly privatized state-owned enterprises. While most research seeking to explain this phenomenon treated countries as independent units, this study analyzes whether diffusion played a role in the spread of privatization. We provide a comprehen...

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Autori principali: Jathe, Jan (Autore) , Engler, Fabian (Autore) , Zohlnhöfer, Reimut (Autore)
Natura: Article (Journal)
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: 10 February 2026
In: Socio-economic review
Year: 2026, Pages: 1-20
ISSN:1475-147X
DOI:10.1093/ser/mwag006
Accesso online:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag006
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ser/mwag006/8471634?login=true
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Note sull'autore:Jan Jathe, Fabian Engler, Reimut Zohlnhöfer
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Riassunto:Starting in the early 1980s, advanced democracies increasingly privatized state-owned enterprises. While most research seeking to explain this phenomenon treated countries as independent units, this study analyzes whether diffusion played a role in the spread of privatization. We provide a comprehensive, cross-sectoral picture of the drivers of the diffusion of privatization. We estimate spatio-temporal autoregressive models for 20 countries between 1980 and 2019 and include theoretically grounded operationalizations for the three main mechanisms of diffusion (learning, competition, and emulation), which we tailor to the case of privatization. We find that all three mechanisms affected privatization decisions but not at all times. Rather, diffusion only occurred from the early 1990s until the financial crisis. In contrast, during the 1980s, the example had to be set before the policy instrument could spread, while after 2007 the instrument was a well-established economic policy instrument that no longer needed to spread.
Descrizione del documento:Gesehen am 19.05.2026
Descrizione fisica:Online Resource
ISSN:1475-147X
DOI:10.1093/ser/mwag006

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