the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data …This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated …

measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our …This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … estimates are robust to alternative functional forms, but sensitive to how we control for selection. Our preferred random growth …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28 percent in … it about 4 percent. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44 percent) and is …