We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated …

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

(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …

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 … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

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 …