Divestitures, privatization and corporate performance in emerging markets

Economics of Transition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-73

  Hanousek, Jan ^a,b,c   Kočenda, Evžen ^a,b,c   Svejnar, Jan ^c,d,e,f  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

^f IZA ^*

Author keywords

Breakups; Corporate performance; Divestiture; Emerging markets; Endogeneity; Privatization

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; MARKET TRANSITION; OWNERSHIP; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRIVATIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 57749084264     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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