estimate price-cost margins and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased competitive pressure. The … estimating firm performance, by making use of the properties of the primal and dual Solow residual. We find that privatization is … domestic privatized firms. Our results suggest that the sequencing of reforms, such as demonopolization prior to privatization …

net job creation at the firm level was affected by privatization in Bulgaria, privatization in Romania did not have any …

Eastern German privatization and restructuring of firms is seen as a special case because of the peculiarities of … and organization, the extent and the speed of privatization, it had to take into account politico-economic repercussions … privatization is only in a limited way a special case and therefore some lessons can be drawn for other transition countries. …

Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of …

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 …

that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Using a dataset from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 … transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of … market power in product markets are utilised to undertake innovation. …

The emerging literature on the characteristics of innovation processes in the service sector has paid relatively little … attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation … of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community …