privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …

to the Western frontier. …

frontier and of firms' technological positioning based on multiple technical characteristics by using data envelopment analysis … discontinuities, followed by incremental developments; there is convergence on the technological frontier by all competitors; at the …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-94 to 1995-97 and did not change … from 1995-97 to 1998-2000. The distance to the frontier is, however, orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in the …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …