Secondary Privatization in Transition Economies

Barbara Blaszczyk is a Professor at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a co-founder and President of the board of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE Foundation), Warsaw, Poland. She served as adviser to the Polish government and Parliament in the years 1989-1996. Iraj Hoshi is Reader in Economics at Staffordshire University Business School, UK. He has acted as consultant and advisor to research institutions in Albania, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Poland, Romania and Russia. Richard Woodward is a member of the CASE Foundation in Warsaw. He is also their External Contacts Officer.

'The sixteen economists contributing to this study...provide some interesting insights into the different approaches to the transformation process adopted in each of these erstwhile Communist economies.' - Slavonic & East European Review

• Ownership and Performance in Transition Economies: An Overview; B.Blaszczyk, I.Hoshi, E.Kocenda & R.Woodward Slovenia: Ownership Performance of Mass-Privatized Firms; M.Simoneti, A.Böhm, M.Rems, M.Rojec, J.P.Damijan & B.Majcen Poland I: Ownership and Performance of Firms Privatized by Management-Employee Buyouts; P.Kozarzewski & R.Woodward Poland II: Ownership and Performance of the National Investment Funds and Their Portfolio Companies; B.Blaszczyk, M.Górzynski, T.Kaminski & B.Paczóski The Czech Republic: Ownership and Performance of Voucher-Privatized Firms; E.Kocenda & J.Valachy Mass Privatization and Endogenous Ownership Structure; I.Grosfeld & I.Hoshi Secondary Privatization: Summary and Lessons Learned; B.Blaszczyk, I.Hoshi & R.Woodward