Company Performance in Ukraine: What Governs its Success

Tatiana Andreyeva

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Abstract: The observable outcomes of post-Soviet economic reforms have generated large interest and controversy in the transition debate. Privatization and market competition are the two primary forces to induce changes in the firm behavior. The author investigates how firm performance responds to these forces by modeling firm performance in Ukraine. Drawing from panel data on Ukrainian firms for 1996–2000, the study estimates a production function using random-effects and instrumental variable estimators. The analysis finds evidence that firm performance improves significantly with privatization. This effect is particularly strong when several private owners concentrate ownership. There is indication that privatized companies with dominant outside shareholders are most efficient. Another finding is that market competition has little role in determining firm performance in Ukraine.

Keywords: Ukraine; firm performance; ownership structure; competition; transition economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 D24 D40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-his and nep-tra
Date: 2003-03-06
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