within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

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 … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …

With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or … for reasons of ideological preferences. The method of privatization (auction, bargaining, giveaway) is the one that is …

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 … privatization effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity …

With this theoretical survey the thesis is put forward that the method of privatization as well as the structure of the … privatization agency is choosen by the politicians for politico-economic reasons, and not for reasons of saving transaction costs or … for reasons of ideological preferences. The method of privatization (auction, bargaining, giveaway) is the one that is …

The privatization literature depicts the choice whether to contract out as a tradeoff between excessive private … it is kept in-house. Therefore, privatization decisionmakers and monitoring agencies may be more prone to capture when …