privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to growfor most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …

frontier in two economies that represent alternative models of implementing market-oriented development policies: the Czech … firms are also contributing to the gap. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms … further from the frontier although foreign firms do exhibit this behavior. The distance of the Russian firms to the efficiency …

, estimates from stochastic production frontier specifications show that inadequate business support physical infrastructural …

directly affect the production technology of the sector, making a regional cost frontier model appropriate. In 2005, 48.7% of …