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Russian Firms in Transition: Champions, Challengers, and Chaff

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1996

This paper proposes a composite measure to evaluate a firm's survival potential. The composite measure is applied to 51 Russian firms located in Moscow, Volgograd, Rostov and Taganrog, utilizing data collected in 1995 from in-depth interviews with top-level managers of manufacturing, trade, and...

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Depreciation and Russian Corporate Finance: A Pragmatic Approach to Surviving thr Transition

Linz, Susan L. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997

Are Russian firms being allowed to clean the slate with respect to the Soviet legacy of obsolete capital stock? If estimates of capital productivity and firm-level efficiency in Soviet industry are correct, enterprise managers in Russia's emerging market economy will lobby for high depreciation...

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Ownership and Employment in Russian Industry: 1992-1995

Linz, Susan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

Using data collected from a panel of 6,205 civilian manufacturing firms located in the Central, Volga, North Caucasus, Northern and Western Siberian regions of Russia, this paper examines the hypotheses that in the first stage of the transition process (1) Russian industry exhibited a low labor...

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Labor Productivity in Transition: A Regional Analysis of Russian Industry

Linz, Susan J. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

This paper examines within-industry variation in labor productivity at the beginning of Russia's transition process in 1992, as well as regional variation in the percentage of firms that exhibit below industry average labor productivity. The main hypothesis is that industries and regions where a...

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Enterprise Restructuring in Russia's Transition Economy: Formal and Informal Mechanisms

Linz, Susan J.; Krueger, Gary - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

This paper examines the nature and scope of enterprise restructuring in Russia using two sources of firm-level data. The first involves a panel of over 2,000 civilian manufacturing firms in Moscow, Tver, Volgograd, Rostov, and Novosibirsk. The second involves data collected from a series of...

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A Multi-Task Theory of the State Enterprise Reform

Bai, Chong-En; Li, David D.; Tao, Zhigang; Wang, Yijiang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

During transition, maintaining employment and providing a social safety net to the unemployed are important to social stability, which in turn is crucial for the productivity of the whole economy. Because independent institutions for social safety are lacking and firms with strong profit...

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How Does Privatization Affect Workers? The Case of the Russian Mass Privatization Program

Brainerd, Elizabeth - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

This paper explores the effect of mass privatization and the development of a new private sector in Russia on the wage and skill distributions in the private and state sectors of the economy. Two questions this paper seeks to answer are: (1) Does wage-setting behavior in privatized firms...

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Transition in Russia: It's Happening

Berkowitz, Daniel; DeJong, David; Husted, Steven - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997

Working with 110 pairs of time series of state and market commodity prices in Russia, we search for signs of transition in Russia from a command to a market economy. Beginning with inter-city comparisons of state and market prices, we find that differences in the levels of these prices have...

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Competitive Shocks and Industrial Structure: The Case of Polish Manufacturing

Ghemawatt, Pankaj; Kennedy, Robert E. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1997

A large number of countries have recently experienced competitive shocks: sudden increases in the role that market forces play in determining the evolution of various industries. In this paper, we study the implications of Poland's competitive shock for three elements of the structure of that...

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The Link between Innovation and Productivity in Estonia’s Service Sectors

Vahter, Priit; Masso, Jaan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

The emerging literature on the characteristics of innovation processes in the service sector has paid relatively little … attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation … of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community …

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