Case-by-Case Versus mass privatization in transition economies: Initial owner and final seller effects on performance of firms in Slovenia

World Development

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1603-1625

  Simoneti, Marko ^a,b   Damijan, Jože P ^b,c   Rojec, Matija ^b   Majcen, Boris ^b  

^a Central and Eastern European Privatization Network   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Endogeneity; Europe; Firm performance; Privatization; Selection bias; Slovenia; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRIVATIZATION; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 26844511757     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.04.015     Document Type: Article

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