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Cuadrado Ballesteros, Beatriz Peña-Miguel, Noemí 2025-04-10T16:45:07Z 2025-04-10T16:45:07Z 2024 Cuadrado-Ballesteros, B., & Peña-Miguel, N. (2024). Privatisation and government spending efficiency: An empirical analysis in Europe. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 71(4), 625-648. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12386 0036-9292 http://hdl.handle.net/10366/164716 10.1111/SJPE.12386 [EN] Academic literature has made an effort to demonstrate the positive effects of privatisation reforms on government performance and economic growth. However, there is no sufficient evidence to support the benefits of privatisation in terms of government spending efficiency. This study analyses the correlation between privatisation and government spending efficiency. Our empirical results do not support a positive effect of privatisation on government spending efficiency. These findings are relevant because they suggest that, although privatisation has been usually seen as a tool to balance public finances, it does not mean that government spending efficiency will be higher after privatising State-owned enterprises. eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Privatization Efficiency DEA Order-m State-owned enterprises Privatisation and government spending efficiency: an empirical analysis in Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/article