macroeconomic impact of this institutional reform on the growth rate of the GDP. A sample of
thirty five developing market economies is considered over the 1988-92 period. Probit and
Tobit models are used to identify the determinants of successful privatization programmes.
Then regressions are run where probabilities (Probit) and expected values (Tobit) are
successively included as additional regressors beside the potential influence of other …