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The privatisation experience in the Australian banking and insurance sectors: an explanation of the change in ownership structures

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  • Monica Keneley
  • Margaret McKenzie

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Deregulation has been a feature of the evolution of financial markets in the past two decades. Extending this trend has been the move to privatise government-owned financial institutions. In the 1990s, Australian governments progressively sold publicly owned banks and insurance institutions. One outcome has been that few of these privatised financial firms exist today, having been absorbed in mergers and acquisitions within the financial services sector. This paper uses an information cost framework to explain the experience of privatised banks and insurers. Our approach points to a dynamic process of organisational change that has influenced the outcomes of privatisation in the financial services sector.

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  • Monica Keneley & Margaret McKenzie, 2008. "The privatisation experience in the Australian banking and insurance sectors: an explanation of the change in ownership structures," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(3), pages 303-321.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acbsfi:v:18:y:2008:i:3:p:303-321
    DOI: 10.1080/09585200802383299
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