Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behaviour quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bear … reforming Russia than in ‘gradualist’ Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

use data from the recently liberalized and regionally diverse country of Russia to test the hypothesis. Estimating …

, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …

East Germany remains unique among the transition economies. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it became … well as local capacities. Third, the Kohl government's policy towards East German transition, driven by short …

This essay surveys macroeconomic issues that marked the transition from centrally planned to market economy in Central … and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. We first establish a set of stylized facts of the transition so …) institutions collapsed, and (7) the transition costs. We then critically survey the theoretical literature on transition …

transition. These firms were selected for listing on the exchange and presumably had better access to external capital. In …