1995. We focus on the two primary types of ownership change in Russia: the privatization of existing state …

Cournot model that distinguishes two aspects of privatization interacting with market opening: privatization of a firm and … privatization of its competitors. Under plausible conditions, the model implies that privatizing a firm is a substitute for exposing …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

Why do the reported effects of privatization on firm performance vary so much? This paper re-estimates these effects …, but they vary across countries and time periods. Our analysis of heterogeneity in privatization effectiveness finds little …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

selection effects in the privatization process that may bias the observed ownership-performance relationship. Drawing upon a … ownership change in Russia was already having some positive effects, shortly after the conclusion of the voucher privatization … Russian privatization program appears to have been biased against such institutional investors, the latter finding only …