This book is a result of the 5th Biennual Conference of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies "Economies in Transition and the Variety of Capitalisms: Features, Changes, Convergence" held in Varna, Bulgaria, 10-12 September 1998. It includes 28 papers from all discussed...

Nous estimons une fonction de croissance des vingt-cinq pays de l'Est sur la periode 1990-1999. Les resultats montrent que la stabilisation macroeconomique (la lutte contre l'inflation) et les modalites de mise en oeuvre de la privatisation (le renoncement a la methode de privatisation de masse,...

This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences in order to identify the causal...