a major risk for potential investors. High entry barriers lead to weak competition. Reducing the role of the state in … the economy and WTO membership should be viewed as opportunities to strengthen competition, and hence provide incentives … for productivity improvements, which are urgently required to ensure stronger growth in Russia because of a shrinking …

1995. We focus on the two primary types of ownership change in Russia: the privatization of existing state …Has the rapid ownership transformation in Russia had an impact on enterprise performance or on worker behavior and …

it to the railroad, electricity, and telecommunications sectors in Russia, Lithuania, Romania, and Poland …

privatization, rather weak competition, unexpectedly hardbudget constraints, an overwhelmingly negative and relatively positive … accomplished. That is: stronger competition and betterinstitutions go with more restructuring, while privatization and harder … restructuring, ownership,competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering theperiod …

reallocate. For restructuring to occur requires imposition of hard budget constraints and increases in competition. These in turn …

This paper deals with main feature of Russia's public sector, privatization plan and changes in the legistation which …

impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …