Comparative Economic Studies articles from June 2003

Comparative Economic Studies archives from June 2003

Measuring the impact of Russian privatisation at the turn of the century: an introduction to the symposium.
June 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Just as the literature on communist economics focused disproportionately on the Soviet Union (see eg Gregory and Stuart, 1986), Ellman, 1989), so research on the transition economies has placed emphasis on the way that the...

Finance, restructuring and performance in privatised Russian enterprises.
June 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION The importance of finance for corporate restructuring and performance is one of the most consistent conclusions throughout studies of transition. While privatisation has led to the transfer of ownership from state to private...

Turnover of senior managers in Russian privatised firms.
June 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Poor management of firms can be rooted in incompetence, insufficient incentives for managers or both. Remedies vary accordingly: replacing incumbents with more capable managers, introducing the right incentives or a...

Ownership, competition and enterprise performance.
June 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In this paper, we use the data from our Russia survey to explore the impact of competition on the performance of firms. The transition process at the enterprise level entailed two major policy initiatives--the creation of a...

Determinants of Russian enterprise performance: conclusions from the symposium.
June 1, 2003... In this Special Issue, we have reported the findings of a recent large-scale survey of Russian industrial enterprises. (1) The project looked at the factors determining and constraining enterprise performance in the period around the 1998...

Appendix: survey methodology.
June 1, 2003... The survey was designed to enable the analysis of the relationships between performance, ownership, corporate governance, restructuring and finance among privatised Russian enterprises. The questionnaire was developed between mid-1998 and...