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policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects … of the privatization policy and point to a large unfinished agenda in ownership transformation that has had an adverse … the pace of privatization. They find out that it is the increasing capture of the state by rent-seeking groups, and not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011706387
policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects … of the privatization policy and point to a large unfinished agenda in ownership transformation that has had an adverse … the pace of privatization. They find out that it is the increasing capture of the state by rent-seeking groups, and not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725513
policy towards a more active role of the state, and use privatization policy as an example. The authors examine the effects … of the privatization policy and point to a large unfinished agenda in ownership transformation that has had an adverse … the pace of privatization. They find out that it is the increasing capture of the state by rent-seeking groups, and not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986258
impact of privatization on labor productivity: in our basic specifications, we estimate that a ten percentage point increase …We investigate whether privatization, competitive forces, and hardening of budget constraints have yet begun to play … concentration is estimated to have a negative impact and the geographic scope of markets a positive effect on productivity, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060405
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316912
market structures are associated with higher total factor productivity. However, these effects depend on the ownership …
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market structures are associated with higher total factor productivity. However, these effects depend on the ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118279
The present paper aims to provide some new evidence on how the insiders, i.e. employees of portfolio companies, view the Polish mass privatisation scheme. Based on two inquiries conducted in selected NIF firms in 1996 and 1998, it simultaneously offers a comparative analysis of the changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455107
After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession follows multiyear efforts of economic stabilisation and...
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