describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 …

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 …

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 …

remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …-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 …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …

cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it is found that private ownership alone does not automatically generate …