In this paper, we study how the privatization and deregulation of intermediate goods industries influence capital … due to increased competition on the deregulated market and that the privatization of state enterprises is not likely to …

optimal policy choice is to combine privatization with proactive competition policies. …The article argues that most objections against a new wave of privatization in Russia suffer from a 'Nirvana fallacy …', i.e., rely on undue comparison of limited (yet positive) results of actual privatization policies with the alleged …

, large scale privatization changes the political-economic equilibria in a dangerous way, because it splits society between …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …