paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports …, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such …

This Third Volume in the acclaimed series of CEU Privatization Reports deals with the transition to a free market in … retail trade and consumer services in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic … concerning all aspects of the small privatization process …

We investigate whether privatization, competitive forces, and hardening of budget constraints have yet begun to play … impact of privatization on labor productivity: in our basic specifications, we estimate that a ten percentage point increase … models, the effect is usually small and rarely precisely estimated. We find some evidence that privatization and subsidy …

positive effects, and the effects of domestic privatization tend to be larger in countries with a more competitive business …

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …