advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

for endogeneity of ownership, we find that foreign ownership markedly improved the efficiency of firms, whereas domestic … private ownership did not; domestic firms are not catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of Czech firms. Nevertheless, after nearly a decade of reforms, neither model of …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency … further from the frontier although foreign firms do exhibit this behavior. The distance of the Russian firms to the efficiency …Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … from 1995-97 to 1998-2000. The distance to the frontier is, however, orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-94 to 1995-97 and did not change …

of actual to desired level of employment. Productivity growth is defined in terms of a shift in the labor requirement …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence … or divergence in regional productivity. We use unique longitudinal plant-level data over a long period of time and apply … a useful variant of productivity decomposition methods to study differences in productivity-enhancing restructuring …

distance of a plant’s productivity from the industry’s technological frontier. R&D is specified as an accumulated stock from R … positive productivity impact and that the former impact decreases as the distance from the industry’s technological frontier …This paper examines, through the use of plant-level data, whether R&D’s productivity impact is contingent on the …