advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … from 1995-97 to 1998-2000. The distance to the frontier is, however, orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-94 to 1995-97 and did not change …

ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large panel of quarterly observations, we eliminate biases introduced by …

This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link … from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership … ownership and various types of private ownership, while contrasting concentrated and diffuse forms of private ownership …

productivity catch-up is rejected. A number of potential `ultimate' causes behind the slowdown are explored. An increasingly …

persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations, even though these countries show a common technology, constant … generations specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital … than leisure). We consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation …

use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries …

States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies … productivity grows less due to larger mismatch. The model can be used to address a number of normative issues. …