reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization …

reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel re-search design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional …

institutional support and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia … reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to … privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …

paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports …, privatization is estimated to have positive effects on productivity-enhancing reallocation, but there is less evidence of such …

data permit us to track the privatization process and to estimate the impact of privatization within industry-year cells … majority privatized versus state-owned firms. The gap increases with time since privatization, reaching about 15-17% five years … after privatization. It also increases with calendar time although recent privatizations are associated with smaller …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … differences and to assess types of observable 'winners' and 'losers' from privatization. Preprivatization worker-firm matches are … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 …