Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154973 
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Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 19.1999
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure on the productivity performance of Russian industrial enterprises. The analysis compares the effects of several types of new private owners - insiders (managers and other employees) and outsiders (individual and institutional investors) - with continued ownership by the state, and it takes into account possible selection effects in the privatisation process that may bias the observed ownership-performance relationship. The results provide some evidence that ownership change in Russia was already having some positive effects, shortly after the conclusion of the voucher privatisation process, but that those effects were strongest in companies with concentrated outside owners. Because the design of the Russian privatisation programme appears to have been biased against such institutional investors, the latter finding only emerges after a careful analysis of the simultaneous determination of ownership and performance through the privatisation process.
Subjects: 
Ownership Structure
Productivity
Russian industrial enterprise
JEL: 
G3
G32
L33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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