We study whether Russian Financial-Industrial Groups facilitate access by Russian firms to investment finance. We … control set of large firms categorized by dispersed ownership or/and management and employee control. We find that investment … reallocation hide opportunistic value transfer across firms. Specifically, we assess the quality of the investment process in group …

heavily on exports to Russia and Ukraine. However, assuming a peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian conflict in 2015, it is … held ‘on a short leash’. Growth in public investment may be supporting economic growth, especially in those new EU Member … States (NMS) that have access to EU funds. However, a proper rebound in private-sector investment is still lacking. Weak …

. Overall, our analysis suggests that corporate governance in Ukraine operates with a certain degree of efficiency, despite the …

enterprise performance for public companies in Ukraine. We use unique data on corporate governance choices for above 5 thousand … firms (around a half of all public companies in Ukraine) for three years from 2000 to 2002. We construct index …