During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

We investigate determinants of foreign ownership in newly privatized firms. We analyze data on privatized Czech firms to address two related general questions. First, what characteristics distinguish transition firms that attract a foreign investor? Second, how do firm-specific characteristics...

Transition requires the reallocation of resources across activities through closure of inefficient firms and the creation of new firms. It also requires restructuring of existing firms where improvements in performance are feasible. Both processes are closely tied together and are aimed at...

Im Laufe des mehr als fünfzehnjährigen Transformationsprozesses haben sich die ehemaligen Ostblockstaaten wirtschaftlich stark auseinanderentwickelt. 2006 betrug der Abstand zwischen dem ärmsten und dem reichsten Land gemessen am Pro-Kopf-Bruttoinlandsprodukt in Verkaufskraftparitäten mehr...