Description
The Treuhandanstalt was a privatizing agency in East Germany. It was responsible for the privatization of state-owned companies and other public assets. The agency faced many theoretical and conceptual problems in its attempt to privatize large amounts of assets quickly and efficiently.
This text gives an analysis of privatization and restructuring by the Treuhandanstalt in East Germany. It also addresses the theoretical and conceptual problems of large-scale privatization in the transformation process.