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Privatisation in Ireland

Lessons from a European Economy

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Dónal Palcic
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  2. Eoin Reeves
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 1-7

  3. Privatisation in Europe

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 8-27

  4. Privatisation Objectives: Theory and Evidence

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 28-51

  5. Public Enterprise and Privatisation in Ireland

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 52-75

  6. Privatisation and Performance in Ireland

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 76-114

  7. The Financial Costs of Privatisation

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 115-131

  8. Employee Share Ownership Plans

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 132-154

  9. Telecommunications: A Tale of Privatisation Failure

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 155-179

  10. Nationalisation of the Irish Banking Sector

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 180-208

  11. Lessons from Privatisation and the Future of SOEs

    • Dónal Palcic, Eoin Reeves
    Pages 209-232

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 233-269
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This book analyzes privatization in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last thirty years. It examines the effects of privatization in terms of corporate performance, public finances and the distributional aspects of privatization including the impact on employment and share ownership.

About the authors

DÓNAL PALCIC is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Limerick. His research interests include privatisation, public sector reform, telecommunications policy and productivity analysis. He has published a number of refereed journal articles and book chapters on the topic of privatisation.

EOIN REEVES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Limerick. His research interests focus on the economics of the public sector and public sector reform. He has published articles in Public Administration, Telecommunications Policy, Economics and Industrial Democracy, The Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics and Public Money and Management.

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