competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be … associated with higher firm perfirmance in Poland irrespective of the ownership structure of firms. Furthfirmore the positive … effects of increased import competition are reinforced for foreign owned firms. In contrast, in Bulgaria and Romania …

sequencing privatizing events, and determining the extent of private ownership in partial privatization. We investigate this …

environment in Russia supports competition and to draw attention to the areas where further reform efforts would pay dividends … foreign trade and direct investment regimes. In some network sectors, recent regulatory changes have significantly improved … the scope for competition. However, ongoing work needs to focus on separating competitive and monopoly market segments and …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … positive employment and wage bill consequences of foreign ownership result from a substantial scale-expansion effect that …

ownership. Further, the paper shows that additional productivity dividends are associated with increased competition in Romania … the implications for competition and economic growth. The results show that the (sales-weighted) average markup in Romania …, the retail and trade sector). This suggests that the increase in markups in Romania might be associated with an …