We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …

-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 …

privatized firms. First, accounting data prior to and after the privatization are employed to measure the operating performance … are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was … ; performance measure ; privatization ; ratio analysis ; event-study ; public and private relationship …

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

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition … era to permit free competition and effective governance by new owners. -- enterprise restructuring ; privatization …

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

Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …