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Privatization and Restructuring in Concentrated Markets
Norback, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2004
This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes into account how much its own profit will increase....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324978
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Privatisation Methods and Economic Growth in Transition Economies
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul; Maw, James; Urga, Giovanni - 2004
We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324983
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Theory of Privatization in Eastern Europe: Literature Review
Schindele, Ibolya - 2003
This paper discusses the most important theoretical contributions to the literature on privatization, focusing on … emerging economies, and gives a summary on recent research concerning the ways privatization might affect the development of … privatization and the reduction in social welfare and the possibility that the privatization process itself may have conflicting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325031
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What determines Enterprise Performance in Russia? A Survey of the Evidence
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
regional competition isrelated with better performance. Secondly, privatization per se isnot. If there is one ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256352
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256633
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What determines Enterprise Performance in Russia? A Survey of the Evidence
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
regional competition is related with better performance. Secondly, privatization per se is not. If there is one ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137075
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
, massive privatization, rather weak competition, unexpectedly hard budget constraints, an overwhelmingly negative and … privatization and harder budget constraints do not. The substitution, to some extent, of informal for formal institutions may have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137157
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255961
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136903
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Endogenous ownership structure: Factors affecting the post-privatisation equity in largest Hungarian firms
Bishop, Kate; Filatotchev, Igor; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2002
Using a data set for 162 largest Hungarian firms during the period of 1994-1999 this paper explores the determinants of equity shares held by both foreign investors and by Hungarian corporations. We find evidence of a post-privatisation evolution towards more homogeneous equity structures, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335737