This paper considers the Russian privatization process through the end of voucher privatization and examines how its … impossible due to the dearth of reliable data, it is feasible to analyze the institutional features of Russian privatization in … terms of their effect on redistribution of wealth. The attempt is made to consider distributional effects of privatization …

does not receive support in the ownership but the indicator of voucher privatization supports it. The initial conditions … from early 90's were not the driving the financial distress. The voucher-scheme privatization results in poorer corporate …

We investigate whether competitive forces and privatization have yet began to play an efficiency-enhancing role in … Russia. We also explore the economic effects of harder budget constraints on enterprise behavior. The empirical work is based … conclude that privatization is having an impact on enterprise efficiency and restructuring but domestic market structure and …

conducted in Russia in February 2005, I find that the original sin of an illegal privatization is difficult to expunge … their ill-gotten gains legitimate by doing good works?2 This is a critical question for developing countries (and Russia in … particular) where privatization is often opaque and businesspeople may receive property, but remain unwilling to use it …

According to leading economic theorists, creating capitalism out of communism requires rapid privatization. In this … article we empirically test the welfare implications of privatization policies in Post-Soviet countries by using cross …-national panel mortality data as an indicator of social costs. We find that rapid privatization – whether measured by a novel measure …

Post-privatization restructuring of former state-owned enterprises (FSOEs) encompasses both shorter-run "defensive …

In pursuit of its transition from a command to a market economy, Russia has witnessed enormous regional differences in … direct correspondence with growth. We also find that regional differences in large-scale privatization exhibit a positive …