We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … with ownership or institutional factors. However, in Russia, enterprise growth is not associated with increases in factor …

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 … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

lower when the source is Russia. Privatization of 100% ownership has much larger effects than partial privatization of … data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years …

Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … non-rush privatization. The negative effect of rushed privatization on the scale of operations and employment is even … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …