competitive pressure. In contrast to earlier work that analyzes the effect of ownership on firm perfirmance, the estimation method … opening to trade has a disciplining effect on firms?market power. We find that increased import penetration is associated with …

describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 …

ownership and competition appear to be about equally important for the consequences of public sector outsourcing. …

competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be … associated with higher firm perfirmance in Poland irrespective of the ownership structure of firms. Furthfirmore the positive … effects of increased import competition are reinforced for foreign owned firms. In contrast, in Bulgaria and Romania …

-statistics suggest that banks in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE operate under perfect competition; banks in Bahrain and Qatar operate … under conditions of monopolistic competition; and we are unable to reject monopolistic competition for the banking market in …

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms' innovative activities? Does the increase in …

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that despite important differences in the design of the two … programmes and despite different quality of legal and regulatory framework, ownership structure in the two countries has rapidly …

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

degree of competition within the sector and on the ownership of the firm. Ownership structure in Bulgaria however, has no … that competition, privatisation and firm size matter in explaining soft budget constraints, as suggested in the theoretical …