Comprehensive panel data on privatization transactions and labor productivity in Romanian industrial corporations are … used to describe the post-privatization ownership structure, and to estimate the effect of Romania's diverse privatization … transfers and mass privatization are estimated to have significantly smaller-although still positive-effects on firm performance. …

shows that the estimated correlation of privatization and mortality in country-level data is not robust to recomputing the … mass-privatization measure, to assuming a short lag for economic policies to affect mortality, and to controlling for … evidence that privatization increased mortality during the early 1990s. Finally, we reanalyze the relationship between …

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …

This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our … models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … differences and to assess types of observable "winners" and "losers" from privatization. Preprivatization worker-firm matches are … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28 percent in … it about 4 percent. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44 percent) and is …

We analyze the role of privatization in creating a constituency for economic reform, markets, and democratic … privatization, we find positive effects for participants retaining shares, but little impact of participation alone. Our simulations …