advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in … and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the …