"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post …-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of … privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and vary across regions, coinciding with differences in policies and …

' political connectedness and their economic performance in Ukraine. First, it estimates the share of politically connected firms … in Ukraine's economy. Second, the study looks at how different the performance of politically connected firms is from …