performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post … collective ownership does not have a negative effect. In the post-communist economies new firms are equally or more efficient … private ownership, corporate governance, access to know-how and markets, and the legal and institutional system matter for …

of Serbia to examine the relationship between productivity, the investment climate, and private ownership of firms. As …. Identification of the relative effects of various investment climate constraints and ownership on productivity should serve as a … guide for such prioritization. Although ownership has recently received less attention in policy decisions than before …

"Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and … the gender dimensions of asset ownership. This paper sets out a framework for researchers who are interested in collecting … data on individual level asset ownership and analyzing the gender asset gap. It reviews best practices in existing surveys …

"The authors formulate and test hypotheses about the role of bank ownership types-foreign, state-owned, and private … across bank ownership types. The data are also consistent with the hypothesis that firms with state-owned main banks are … relatively unlikely to diversify across bank ownership types. However, state-owned banks often do not provide the main …

legal organization and ownership structure are comparable to institutional factors in explaining variation in property …' perceptions of property rights protection. Their sample includes private and public firms that vary in size from very small to … rights protection. A country's legal origin and formalism index predict property rights variation better than its openness to …

foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, the difference in … ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements become visible in the … restructuring, as acquired plants increase their investment outlays, employment, and wages. Foreign ownership also appears to …