The serious implications of privatizing state-owned enterprises for politicians, managers, and investors make such … decisions highly contingent on firm characteristics and past performance, complicating the identification of the privatization … specification (including its random-growth variant). The paper further finds that the privatization effects are significantly larger …

the links between four components of sector reform (unbundling, private sector participation, regulation, and competition … competition is not generally significant across studies. A notable feature of all of the studies is very limited testing of the …

"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 …