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A Positive Theory of Privatisation for Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Laffont, Jean-Jacques
  • Meleu, Mathieu

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We build a simple positive theory of privatisation for countries where governments have private agendas. Privatisation occurs when the rulers of the country can fetch enough shares in the newly created firms to compensate them from the private benefits they were deriving from public firms. The comparative statics of the model suggests a relationship between the level of privatisation and the level of corruption which has an inverted U-shape. A brief look at data from Sub-Saharan Africa does not reject this hypothesis. Copyright 1999 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Laffont, Jean-Jacques & Meleu, Mathieu, 1999. "A Positive Theory of Privatisation for Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 8(0), pages 30-67, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jafrec:v:8:y:1999:i:0:p:30-67
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    1. G. Gulsun Arikan, 2008. "How Privatizations Affect the Level of Perceived Corruption," Public Finance Review, , vol. 36(6), pages 706-727, November.
    2. Noemí Peña‐Miguel & Beatriz Cuadrado‐Ballesteros, 2018. "The role of governance in privatisation reforms: A European analysis," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 65(5), pages 479-500, November.
    3. Samuel Adams & Berhanu Mengistu, 2008. "The Political Economy of Privatization in Sub‐Saharan Africa," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 89(1), pages 78-94, March.
    4. Estache, Antonio & Wren-Lewis, Liam, 2010. "What Anti-Corruption Policy Can Learn from Theories of Sector Regulation," CEPR Discussion Papers 8082, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    5. Paul G. Hare & Junior R. Davis, 2006. "Institutions and Development: What We (Think We) Know, What We Would Like to Know," CERT Discussion Papers 0603, Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, Heriot Watt University.
    6. Antonio Estache & L. Wren-Lewis, 2008. "Towards a Theory of Regulation for Developing Countries: Following Laffont's Lead," Working Papers ECARES 2008_018, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    7. Eric Maskin, 2004. "Jean-Jacques Laffont: A Look Back," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 2(5), pages 913-923, September.
    8. Antonio Estache & Liam Wren-Lewis, 2009. "Toward a Theory of Regulation for Developing Countries: Following Jean-Jacques Laffont's Lead," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 47(3), pages 729-770, September.
    9. Antonio Estache & Liam Wren-Lewis, 2011. "Anti-Corruption Policy in Theories of Sector Regulation," Chapters, in: Susan Rose-Ackerman & Tina Søreide (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Volume Two, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    10. Buia, Raluca E. & Molinari, M. Cristina, 2012. "Corruption and positive selection in privatization," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(4), pages 297-304.
    11. Chukwuma Agu & Vincent A. Onodugo, 2009. "Capacity, Proximity and the Limitations of Infrastructure Services Decentralisation for Poverty Reduction," Journal of Infrastructure Development, India Development Foundation, vol. 1(2), pages 153-178, December.
    12. Jean-Jacques Laffont, 2004. "Management of Public Utilities in China," Annals of Economics and Finance, Society for AEF, vol. 5(2), pages 185-210, November.
    13. Gasmi, Farid & Berté, Isacco & Demoury, Louise & Kouakou, Dorgyles & Patzig, Niklas & Recuero Virto, Laura, 2024. "The privatization-corruption relationship is nonlinear: Evidence from 1985-2022 data on telecommunications in 103 countries," TSE Working Papers 24-1523, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).

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