privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several …Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … current workers in the firms, current management, mutual funds, holding companies, banks, insurance companies, pension funds …

Poland so far. We then develop a model and use it to think about the determinants of the speed of transition and the level of … unemployment. Finally, we return to the role of policy and the future in Poland, as well as the causes of cross-Central European …

Poland, Hungary. and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for reforms during the transition to a market … greatly. State-owned enterprises reduced employment even absent privatization, producing sizeable joblessness and eliminating … massive vacancies. The dispersion of wages increased substantially in Hungary and Poland though not in Czechoslovakia. My …

Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are …

feudal elite; withdrew its hand with a propitious mass privatization that rallied the private sector; marginalized an …

This paper is a critical review of east German privatization policy. It is argued that the restitution of old property …

insufficient claims on state owned enterprises. The centralized privatization of state owned enterprises, which bypasses the East … German population, is seen as a major obstacle to quick recovery, and an alternative privatization procedure is discussed …

This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms …

We estimate the effects of privatization on zombie versus healthy state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, extending … privatization of underperforming, zombie-like entities can lead to substantial economic improvements and greater efficiency …