This paper analyzes the export performance of Polish manufacturing firms. It focuses on the extensive and intensive margins of exports, on the decision to enter export markets and the intensity of exports, given participation, examining price and non-price determinants of export performance. The...

We provide the first analysis of whether “rushed privatizations” of state-owned enterprises, often carried out under fiscal duress and sometimes in collaboration with external institutions (such as IMF, ECB and EC, as in e.g., Greece), increase or decrease firms’ efficiency, scale of...