Competition and Privatization Amidst Weak Institutions: Evidence from Mongolia

James Anderson, Young Lee and Peter Murrell

Economic Inquiry, 2000, vol. 38, issue 4, 527-49

Abstract: Mongolia's mass privatization program was implanted in a country that lacked the very basic institutions of capitalism. This paper examines the effects of competition and ownership on the efficiency of the newly privatized enterprises, using a representative sample of enterprises and controlling for possible selection biases. Competition has quantitatively large effects; perfectly competitive firms having nearly double the efficiency of monopolies. Enterprises with residual state ownership appear to be more efficient than other enterprises, reflecting an environment where the government was pressured to focus on efficiency and institutions gave little voice to outsider owners. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 2000
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