and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …

institutional support and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity … this effect is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support …

be completed. Secondly, the central challenges of Russia's second decade of reform are primarily concerned with reforming … state institutions. Thirdly, the pursuit of reforms across a broad front could enable Russia to profit from …

paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports … in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

prevailing view of Russia's political economy as an informal, particularistic state-business exchange. At the theoretical level …