This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a … long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the … data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permits us … to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm …

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 …

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows … sources and limits of productivity growth. The data suggests that the factory was not far from the competitive optimum given …

1990 to 2003. The estimating equation is augmented with country- and time-specific variables for methods of privatization … and other factors potentially relevant to growth in transition economies. It is found that ‘mass privatization’ is … associated with faster growth, but the other privatization methods have no significant impact. The findings suggest that in the …

estimation of production functions together with information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …