A cikk a romániai úgynevezett tömeges privatizációs program (tpp) helyét elemzi a román privatizáció folyamatában és hatását a romániai vállalatokra. Csak kevés információt tettek nyilvánossá a program eredményeiről. Becslések szerint a tömeges privatizáció keretében...

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of interfirm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the role of privatization policy design in creating a constituency for economic reform, focusing on the case of the Czech Republic in the early 1990s. Drawing on a sample survey of 1459 Czech individuals in January 1996, we construct attitudinal...

We test whether foreign and domestic product market as well as domestic factor market competition affect firm efficiency, using a 1992-1998 panel of 14,961 Russian industrial firms covering 75 percent of industrial employment in 1992. The results provide strong evidence that domestic product...

This paper develops and implements a methodology for quantifying defense conversion in Russian manufacturing in the early 1990s. A two-sector, three-good model is employed to analyze the flows of resources from military to non-military uses and applied to firm-level survey data under alternative...

We organize an empirical analysis of Russian wage arrears around hypotheses concerning factors that create incentives for firms to pay late and for workers to tolerate late payment, both reinforced by a prevalent environment of overdue wages. Our analysis draws upon nationally representative...

We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Exploiting census-type panel data on over 7,000 manufacturing enterprises, we find that the...

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...