and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource …While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …

forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …

below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and India. In contrast, the central European transition countries such as …

the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …

Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …

This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account …