We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially stateowned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we...

This paper provides an assessment of the contribution to privatization in Romania of the 1995-96 Mass Privatization Program (MPP), which offered shares in nearly 5000 companies to citizens in exchange for coupons. Analyzing a comprehensive database of MPP companies, we find that an average of...

This paper provides a first assessment of the contribution of the Mass Privatization Program (MPP) to privatization in Romania. Despite the potential importance of the 1995-96 program, which offered shares in nearly 5000 companies to citizens in exchange for coupons, little information has been...

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...

We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...