-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of … performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post … tunneling and in some countries new large shareholders artificially decreased performance. The important policy implication is …

"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process …

first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical … the investment climate matters for firms' productive performance. This is true (depending on the industry) for the quality …

regulation variables have been shown to significantly impact firm performance. Section 1 of this paper outlines the theoretical …

"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps …

participation in various societal institutions on microfirm performance in Mexico. They find that firms that participate in credit …

impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on …