@techreport{Schmidt1998Privatization,
abstract = {The paper investigates the recent trends in privatization by local government organizations in Germany. It comes to the conclusion that the privatization policy has been two-directional: on the one hand, municipalities have reduced their economic activities, mainly by different forms of contracting out; on the other hand, they have expanded them into profitable fields. In many cases they have preferred a phantom privatization: government bodies have only been transferred into a private-law establishment. The paper examines the barriers to privatization and provides a strategy to overcome them.},
address = {Kiel},
author = {Klaus-Dieter Schmidt},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {H4; 330; Kommunales Unternehmen; Privatisierung; Kommunalverwaltung; Verwaltungsreform; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {891},
publisher = {Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)},
title = {Privatization and local government reform in Germany: A slow train},
type = {Kiel Working Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46904},
year = {1998}
}
