The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in arapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and...

Recent studies have highlighted the adverse impact of corruption on economic performance. This paper advances the hypothesis that corruption is largely a symptom of underlying weaknesses in public policies and institutions, a formulation that provides deeper insights into economic performance...

This paper summarizes the macroeconomic performance of the transition economies. We first review the initial conditions confronting these economies, the reform strategy that was proposed, and the associated controversies that arose a decade ago. We then account for the widely different outcomes,...