We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

Why do the reported effects of privatization on firm performance vary so much? This paper re-estimates these effects …, but they vary across countries and time periods. Our analysis of heterogeneity in privatization effectiveness finds little …

growth. Most of the studies surveyed show that privatization enhances privatized firms performance, efficiency, and … frameworks. Partial privatization may be beneficial in countries with weak institutions, namely, the French civil law countries … to economic growth. Overall, privatization allows firms to achieve improved efficiency while driving the development of …

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on … sales to foreign and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although …

We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle … primary determinant of privatization policies. Privatization is a means to an end, of course, rather than an end in itself …. But we proceed under the assumption that policymakers have decided, for whatever reason, that privatization is a desirable …

According to leading economic theorists, creating capitalism out of communism requires rapid privatization. In this … article we empirically test the welfare implications of privatization policies in Post-Soviet countries by using cross …-national panel mortality data as an indicator of social costs. We find that rapid privatization - whether measured by a novel measure …

We analyze when, and to a lesser extent how, privatization occurred in a group of thirty-five low or middle … primary determinant of privatization policies. Privatization is a means to an end, of course, rather than an end in itself …. But we proceed under the assumption that policymakers have decided, for whatever reason, that privatization is a desirable …