Privatization is often viewed as a necessary condition for improved corporate performance. We use a 1992-98 panel of … the population of Czech industrial firms to assess the effect of mass privatization on corporate performance. Using …-owned enterprises. The results with respect to privatization to domestic owners are much less impressive. Our study provides strong …

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 cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

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 cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

This paper is the first to investigate an alternative approach of privatization: privatizing only a subsidiary of a … portion of the firm's stocks to private investors (entirety privatization), we consider only a subsidiary of the public firm … is privatized (subsidiary privatization). We find that subsidiary privatization not only improves social welfare …

privatization were completed, with the corresponding performance change of matched companies that remain domestically owned until …