The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China's newly privatized …

Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

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 …

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

leading to less job security, implying stronger efficiency wage effects. -- Rent sharing ; private vs public ownership ; panel …

-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 …

China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the … linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008 economic census, the 2007 Input-Output Table, and the 2005 population mini …

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, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier …