We examine the determinants of the decision to acquire a listed vs. an unlisted firm and extend the previous evidence of value creation after controlling for endogeneity due to self–selection bias. We also control for market valuation conditions, finding that results are conditional to them....

From the beginning of the transition process, foreign direct investments (FDI) have been an essential pillar in southeastern European economies, a priority for moving society toward a developed market economy. The World Bank has conducted Enterprise Surveys on many countries using data from a...

This article examines how foreign direct investments influence the performance and entrepreneurship of domestic firms, a crucial question for economies – especially transition economies – driven by the incursion of global, exogenous factors. This research uses a qualitative research...

Purpose– This paper is a case study of the Republic of Macedonia and focuses on the development of governance and enterprise restructuring. Thus, country's effective corporate governance and corporate control, which impact enterprise restructuring, are essential in the analysis of...

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is examine governance and enterprise restructuring in Southeast Europe (SEE) (Western Balkans) transition economies. International organizations classify the following countries in SEE (Western Balkans): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia,...

We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...

Employment of physicians by hospitals – typically referred to as vertical integration – has increased significantly. Received theories fail to explain a key fact: The extent of vertical integration in not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals is substantially higher than in for-profit (FP) hospitals....

The world is in the midst of a wave of privatization of state-owned enterprises. We examine how privatization affects workers and how firm-level employment relates to worker-level estimates. Using administrative data from Sweden, we show that following a privatization workers' unemployment...