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Secondary Privatization in Transition Economies by Iraj Hoshi,Richard Woodward Pdf
Privatization was the fundamental pillar of transition from plan to market in former socialist countries. But little is known about the fate of companies that were privatized in large scale privatization schemes such as mass privatization or management-employee buyouts. This is the first original study aiming to fill this gap. It assesses wholesale privatization schemes in three leading transition countries - the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia - in terms of the evolving concentration of ownership and relations to firm performance.
Privatization in Transition Countries by Mr.Oleh Havrylyshyn,Mr.Donal McGettigan Pdf
This paper reviews a selection of studies on privatization experiences in transition countries. Empirical studies almost invariably show privatized enterprises outperform state enterprises. Moreover, the literature identifies de novo firms as being clearly the best performers, followed by outsider-dominated firms, while insider-dominated firms are the least efficient among those newly privatized. The importance of de novo firms in enlarging the private sector in transition economies is reviewed, along with the question of whether privatization efforts support or hinder de novo private sector development. Finally, the paper discusses the importance of providing a suitable market environment for successful private-sector development.
Author : Ira W. Lieberman,Stilpon Nestor,Raj M. Desai Publisher : World Bank Publications Page : 270 pages File Size : 48,7 Mb Release : 1997-01-01 Category : Political Science ISBN : 0821339478
Between State and Market by Ira W. Lieberman,Stilpon Nestor,Raj M. Desai Pdf
IFC Discussion Paper No. 32. Over the years, demand for education at all levels in Kenya has greatly outpaced supply, a gap that has been reduced by private schools catering to the needs of a wide range of socioeconomic groups. This gap will widen further unless the private sectors role is expanded, but private educational institutions face a number of serious constraints, primarily stemming from lack of adequate finance and, in many cases, limited management skills. This paper reviews the market and its constraints and focuses on conditions under which private financial institutions and the International Finance Corporation might play a useful role in the sector. Annexes include 1996 operating costs of Kenya's academic, technical, and vocational schools.
Author : John R. Nellis Publisher : World Bank Publications Page : 44 pages File Size : 40,6 Mb Release : 1999-01-01 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 0821345036
Time to Rethink Privatization in Transition Economies? by John R. Nellis Pdf
IFC Discussion Paper No. 38.QUOTEIt is now universally acknowledged that ownership matters; that private ownership in and of itself is a major determinant of good performance in firms... Decent economic policy and well-functioning legal and administrative institutions... matter greatly as well.QUOTEThis paper looks at what happens when the shift to private ownership gets far out in front of the effort to build the institutional underpinnings of a capitalist economy. The emphasis is on what went wrong and why and what, if anything, can be done to be correct it. Proposals include renationalization and/or postponement of further privatization, both to be accompanied by measures to strengthen the managerial capacities of the state. Neither approach seems likely to produce short-term improvements. The regrettable fact is that governments that botch privatization are equally likely to botch the management of state-owned firms. In a number of Central European transition countries, privatization is living up to expectations; and there is no need for such measures. For institutionally-weak countries, the less dramatic but reasonable short-term course of action is to push ahead more slowly with case- by-case and tender privatization in cooperation with the international assistance community in hopes of producing some success stories that will lead by example.
Private Ownership and Corporate Performance by Anonim Pdf
The assumption behind privatisation in eastern Europe and elsewhere is that private ownership improves corporate performance. We focus on comparing the performance of state firms with either private or privatised firms operating under reasonably similar conditions in three countries of eastern Europe. We supplement this comparison by an examination of the relative performance of privatised and state firms in the period before the former were privatised. Our empirical results confirm the hypothesis that the effect of ownership change is particularly pronounced on the revenue side of corporate performance. In general, we find that firms with outsider owners significantly outperform the firms with insider owners on most performance measures, and that the employees are particularly ineffective owners (indeed less effective than the state). Subscribe to publications email alerts.
Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies by Yelena Kalyuzhnova,Wladimir Andreff Pdf
Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies. The book does not dwell on the administrative or procedural aspects of privatisation. Instead it attempts to understand the bigger picture in terms of underlying policy environment and supporting legal and economic measures which helped to a large extent to determine the eventual success or failure of privatization programmes.
Secondary Privatization in Transition Economies by B. Blaszczyk,Iraj Hoshi,Richard Woodward Pdf
Privatization was the fundamental pillar of transition from plan to market in former socialist countries, but little is known about the fate of companies that were privatized in large-scale privatization schemes such as mass privatization or management employee buyouts. This study assesses wholesale privatization schemes in three leading transition countries - the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia - in terms of the evolving concentration of ownership and relations to firm performance.
Author : Károly Attila Soós Publisher : Central European University Press Page : 202 pages File Size : 44,6 Mb Release : 2011-01-10 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9789639776913
Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition by Károly Attila Soós Pdf
Discusses the policies, practices and outcomes of privatization in six transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, paying particular attention to cross-country differences and to interrelations between the processes of privatisation and the political transition from communism to a new system.The analysis is restricted to the privatisation in those fields where its methods have been strongly different from privatisations in advanced market economies and where differences of privatisation principles and techniques among our six countries were also rather various. This is basically the privatisation of middle-sized and large enterprises, not including banks, non-bank financial companies, natural monopolies and agricultural entities.
Privatization Surprises in Transition Economies by Milica Uvalić,Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead Pdf
A wide-ranging survey which considers employee ownership within privatization legislation and its diffusion and implementation problems in 14 transitional economies. Ten articles address issues such as enterprise restructuring, employment, wages, productivity, and investment policies. The authors conclude that the employee ownership method has proven to be one of the quickest and has brought with it many positive changes. They also identify possible improvements such as the use of employee ownership in combination with other methods. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Privatization in Transition Countries: Lessons From the First Decade by Oleh Havrylyshyn,Donal McGettigan Pdf
The authors' view is that any privatisation is better than none, regardless of whether a stable, competitive environment has been established first. However, private companies started from scratch perform best, followed by newly privatised firms run by outsiders, either local or foreign. Privatised companies dominated by insiders do less well, but even they regularly outperform state enterprises. Without an appropriate market environment though, managers may spend more time lobbying the government for support than undertaking painful restructuring measures.
Privatization, Corporate Governance and the Emergence of Markets by E. Rosenbaum,F. Bönker,H. Wagener Pdf
The volume focuses on privatisation in transition countries, addressing issues ranging from corporate governance to the relationship between privatisation and the emergence of markets, from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors investigate both the theoretical groundwork of privatisation and enterprise restructuring as well as recent empirical evidence. The contributions show that changes in ownership titles are but one part of the story, being closely interwoven as they are with the transformation of corporate governance, enterprise restructuring, network transformation and the emergence of markets.
Gordon C. Rausser,Rachael E. Goodhue,University of Western Ontario. Department of Economics,Leo K. Simon,Transition Economics Research Forum
Author : Gordon C. Rausser,Rachael E. Goodhue,University of Western Ontario. Department of Economics,Leo K. Simon,Transition Economics Research Forum Publisher : London : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario Page : 42 pages File Size : 43,9 Mb Release : 1998 Category : Capitalism ISBN : STANFORD:36105073150760
Privatization, Market Liberalization and Learning in Transition Economies by Gordon C. Rausser,Rachael E. Goodhue,University of Western Ontario. Department of Economics,Leo K. Simon,Transition Economics Research Forum Pdf
Private Ownership and Corporate Performance: Some Lessons from Transition Economies by W. Cheryl Gray Pdf
September 1997 Data on mid-sized firms in three transition economies provide strong evidence that private ownership- for worker ownership- improves corporate performance. And the privatized firms' superior ability to generate revenues allows those firms to sustain or expand employment. Using a large sample of data on mid-sized firms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, Frydman, Gray, Hessel, and Rapacynski compare the performance of privatized and state firms in the environment of the postcommunist transition. They find strong evidence that private ownership- for worker ownership- improves corporate performance. They find no evidence of the privatization shock that was supposed to afflict the behavior of firms undergoing rapid changes in ownership. Instead, they observe a severe shock from marketization, affecting both state and privatized firms- a shock for which private ownership provides a powerful antidote. Among their other findings: Private ownership is most effective in improving a firm's ability to generate revenues, an area in which entrepreneurship seems to be required. Ownership also affects a firm's ability to remove the rather obvious cost inefficiencies inherited from the past, but this effect is less pronounced, as both state and privatized firms engage in significant cost restructuring. Most important, privatized firms generate significantly more employment gains than state firms. It is their superior ability to generate revenues, rather than competence at cost-cutting, that allows them to sustain or expand employment. This is why privatization is the dominant strategy for expanding employment in transition. Outsider-owned firms perform better than insider-owned firms on most performance measures, but there is enough difference between employee- and manager-owned firms to suggest that putting all insiders under a common umbrella is unjustified. Although the effects of managerial ownership are ambiguous, putting employees in control appears to offer no advantages over state ownership on any measure and creates a distinct disadvantage in terms of employment performance. Among outsider owners, privatization funds seem to do as well at revitalizing the privatized companies as do other outsider owners; in particular, the authors find no evidence that funds are less effective than strategic investors. And foreign investors provide perhaps less of an edge than might have been expected; their impact appears no stronger than that of major domestic outsiders. This paper- product of the Development Research Group- part of a larger effort in the Bank to explore issues of corporate governance in transition economies. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under research project Corporate Governance in Central Europe (RPO 678-42).
