Romania by offering organic vegetable to their local contracted consumers in the Western part of the country. All three CSA … groups were initiated by a local NGO. Our empirical results shed light on CSA partnerships in Romania. With regard to …

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 …

models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. We find that the magnitudes of our …

be privatized in all of the member states. Based on a comparative analysis made between Japan and Romania, the paper … shows that railways privatization can be a successful story. …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … workers' fears, our fixed effect and random trend estimates imply little effect of domestic privatization, except for a slight … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …