data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long … the data is used to measure and control for pre-privatization selection bias and to estimate long-run impacts. The data … imply steadily increasing MFP as a result of domestic privatization, reaching about 25 percent relative to state-owned firms …