economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly imitated, in Western Europe, in the former planned economies, in a number of …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …

Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from arandom sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing … owners after privatization. Our results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried out by governments …

This paper investigates whether privatization in emerging economies has a significant indirect effect on local stock … market development through the resolution of political risk. We argue that a sustained privatization program represents a … regulatory and private property rights. We present evidence suggesting that progress in privatization is indeed correlated with …

The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …