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Requirements for successful privatization: Lessons from the Treuhandanstalt's approach

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  • Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter

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The paper analyses the Treuhandanstalt's privatization approach by putting it in a public choice perspective. It comes to the conclusion that the Treuhandanstalt had been very successful in reaching its economic and social targets. Economists might worry that the Treuhandanstalt's operation had accumulated too much waste caused by social considerations. And politicians might lament that its strategy implied that millions of people were ,,outplaced or ,,downsized in the name of privatization. But in terms of the interaction of economics and politics the Treuhandanstalt's performance had not been so far from the optimum.

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  • Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter, 1995. "Requirements for successful privatization: Lessons from the Treuhandanstalt's approach," Kiel Working Papers 696, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
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    1. Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter, 1996. "German unification: A progress report," Kiel Working Papers 722, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).

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