The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the beginning of a long and laborious transition to a market-oriented economy in Russia. While significant progress has been made in liberalising the economy, difficulties remain in the agro-food sector. Russia has enormous economic potential...

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four 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...

Die Hauptziele der Privatisierung in der ungarischen Lebensmittelindustrie waren deren Restrukturierung und die Erhöhung ihrer Wettbewerbskraft sowie das Erreichen von staatlichen Gewinnen zur Finanzierung der Staatsverschuldung. Ausländisches Kapital strömt vor allem in die großen...