-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 …

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …

long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the … 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 …

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 …

between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians throughout Ukraine's transition era. We establish that language rather than nationality …

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …