Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region Book

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I.OVERVIEW
1. Privatization and Corporate Governance
2. Antitrust Merger Policy: Lessons from the Australian Experience
3. Using Markets to Help Solve Public Problems
II. COUNTRY STUDIES
4. Recent Developments in the Public-Enterprise Sector of Korea
5. The Korean Economic Crisis and Corporate Governance System
6. Sources of Corporate Financing and Economic Crisis in Korea: Micro-Evidence
7. Intitial Public Offering and Corporate Goverance in China's Transitional Economy
8. Why Do Governments Dump State Enterprises? Evidence from China
9. Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization: The Case Study of Garment nd Metal-Casting Enterprise in the Greater Yangtze River Region
10. Government Commitment and the Outcome of Privatization in China
III. SECTORAL PRIVATIZATION AND REGULATION
11. Rail Reform Strategies: The Australian Experience
12. The Japanese Experience with Railway Restructuring
13. What Has Been Achieved in the Japanese Telecommunications Industry since 1985?
14. How to Restructure Failed Banking Systems: Lessons from the United States in the 1930s and Japan in the 1990s
15. Banks, Bailout Guarantees, and Risky Debt
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index