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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.

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Privatisation in Europe Privatisation Objectives: Theory and Evidence Public Enterprise and Privatisation in Ireland Privatisation and Performance in Ireland The Financial Costs of Privatisation Employee Share Ownership Plans Telecommunications: A Tale of Privatisation Failure Nationalisation of the Irish Banking Sector Lessons from Privatisation and the Future of State Owned Enterprise

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DàNAL 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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