-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient firms disappeared during mass privatization in a booming economy of Montenegro …. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon … remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …

. Overall, our analysis suggests that corporate governance in Ukraine operates with a certain degree of efficiency, despite the …

-2010, we show that a higher share of politically connected supervisory board members leads to lower productivity …

We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using … persistent productivity, with greater gains for immigrants from non-Western countries. Moreover, the pass-through of within …-firm productivity variation to earnings is stronger for immigrants in low-productive, immigrant-dense firms. But immigrant workers are …

above average size, initial profitability and initial labor productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find … that foreign investment has a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact on TFP (Total Factor Productivity) growth …

Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …

efficiency gains result from better incentives and productivity, rather than from wholesale firing of employees and profitability …