in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an … input index with annual industrial census data from 1985 to 2001, we find that Soviet Russia displayed low reallocation …

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers it about 4 … ambiguous even after 5 years in Russia. Pre-privatization MFP exceeds that of firms remaining state-owned in all countries …

Hungary and Russia are small (3-5%) negative wage effects found. Privatization to foreign investors has positive estimated … effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment outcome under foreign ownership results from a substantial …