During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of … ability to influence law enforcement. Our econometric results, for about 950 firms in five transition economies, provide …

former Communist party membership from self-selection. Using individual-level Life in Transition–III survey and instrumental … practices, business ethics, and the nature of doing business in transition economies …

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

. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon …

the transition, up until the shock is fully absorbed. Viability is a function of the speed of job destruction and the … transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios, unemployment differentials are simultaneously determined by the speed of …

sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … to firms, and how firms respond to the economic environment by restructuring; we are able to do this because the BEEPS …