This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …

the 1980s, Ukrainian job reallocation in the 1990s was clearly productivity-enhancing, both within and across industries … to which it has contributed to aggregate productivity growth. …

, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such …How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports …

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 …

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

from rural to urban locations is endogenous and linked to productivity differences between the two locations and survival …