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Competition and Enterprise Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from a Cross-country Survey

Carlin, Wendy; Fries, Steven; Schaffer, Mark E.; … - 2001

This paper uses a survey of 3,300 firms in 25 transition countries to shed light on the factors that influence restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three-year period. We begin by surveying what a decade of...

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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance?

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2008

We analyse a large stratified random sample of firms that provide measures of each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints. Specifically, we use the 2005 and 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476563

Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition and development, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476783

Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2007

Abstract: We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476928

Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Svejnar, Jan - 2007

We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476938

Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476939

What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477143

Privatization and performance: Evidence from telecommunications sector

Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, E; Sathye, M - 2008

There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises … of telecommunication firms around the world, 4 years before and 4 years after privatization, using two parallel measures … could corroborate stronger evidence for or against maintained hypothesis of performance improvements after privatization …

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On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms

Viverita,; Ariff, Mohamed - 2008

and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme …

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Privatization, Market Liberalization and Learning in Transition Economies

Goodhue, Rachael E.; Rausser, Gordon C.; Simon, Leo K. - 1997

Privatization and market liberalization are widely considered to be complementary reforms in transition economies. This … pursued too vigorously, privatization may actually impede the transition process following market liberalization. Our result … analysis, less than full privatization is optimal when the costs of learning are sufficiently important. …

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