The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

Mongolia's mass privatization program was implanted in a country that lacked the very basic institutions of capitalism …. This paper examines the effects of competition and ownership on the efficiency of the newly privatized enterprises, using a … representative sample of enterprises and controlling for possible selection biases. Competition has quantitatively large effects …

Comprehending turmoil : post-Soviet Russia as a struggle for property -- The tangled web they wove : property in the … USSR before 1985 -- Let the games begin, 1985-91 -- The next big thing : property in the era of mass privatization and land … reform, 1992-94 -- Many currents, one tumultuous river : redistribution after privatization, 1994-97 -- The earth moves …