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In a partially reformed economy, distortions beget distortions. Segments of the economy which are freed from centralized control respond to the rent seeking opportunities implicit in the remaining distortions of the economy. The battle to capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the...
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the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …
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continued opening of markets to domestic and foreign competition, privatisation of state-owned firms and increased levels of …
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policies and structural reforms, particularly privatization, contributed to the growth recovery. We also conclude that the …
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, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role …
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Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
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We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...
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privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several …Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …
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When Russia launched mass privatization, it was widely believed that it would create a powerful constituency for the … show that beneficiaries of mass privatization may fail to demand the rule of law even if it is the Pareto efficient rule of …
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