Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two … transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that despite important differences in the design of the two …

that characterise the transition process in both the economic and political realms. Contrary to a widespread assumption … survey the vast empirical literature on transition economies in order to provide evidence on the correlation between … expectations at the beginning of transition and success of the transition process. We provide the first comprehensive survey of the …

We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition … transition and recession was over. Our analysis suggests that an advantage of mass privatisation was that it led spontaneously to …

Russia and highlights how this has impacted macroeconomic performance during Putin's different terms in office. Although … Russia is not an economic superpower globally, the size and importance of Russia for the CIS region is significant and thus …