Enterprise Break-ups and Performance During the Transition

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Enterprise Break-ups and Performance During the Transition

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Lizal, Lubomir
Singer, Miroslav
Svejnar, Jan

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This paper estimates the effects of the 1991 breakups of Czechoslovak state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on subsequent performance of the master enterprises and the spin-off units. The analysis is based on quarterly and annual data of Czechoslovak industrial enterprises. We estimate the performance effect of a spin-off by comparing the performance of enterprises that were present throughout the 1990–92 period, but did not experience any spin-offs, to that of: a) master enterprises that experienced spin-offs; and b) the new spin-off subsiduaries. The estimates suggest that the breakups had a significant immediate (1991) effect on productive efficiency and profitability of industrial firms. The effect was positive for small to slightly above-average size spin-offs and negative for large ones. The hypothesis that the estimated effect of spin-offs on performance was identical for the spin-off subsiduaries and the master enterprises that experienced the spin-offs cannot be rejected. The 1991 estimates thus strongly suggest that the large firms created under the centrally-planned system suffered from inefficiencies that were alleviated by the break-ups of these firms into smaller units.

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Paper provided by C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers in its series CEPR Discussion Papers with number 1757.

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D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior
D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity
L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
P11 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Planning, Coordination, and Reform

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Jan Svejnar, 2006. "Strategies for growth : Central and Eastern Europe," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pages 205-233. [Downloadable!]
Lubomir Lizal, 2001. "Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level during the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behavior of Czech Enterprises," Development and Comp Systems 0012010, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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- Lizal, L., 1999. "Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level during the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behavior of Czech Enterprises," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp147, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economic Institute, Prague. [Downloadable!]
- Lizal, L., 1999. "Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level During the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behaviour of Czech Enterprises," Papers 147, Commission of the EEC - Ecofin, Country Studies.
- Lubomir Lizal, 1999. "Does a Soft Macroeconomic Environment Induce Restructuring on the Microeconomic Level during the Transition Period? Evidence from Investment Behavior of Czech Enterprises," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 235, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]
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Jan Svejnar, 2007. "China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies," IZA Discussion Papers 2791, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
Swati Basu & Saul Estrin & Jan Svejnar, 2000. "Employment and Wages in Enterprises Under Communism and in Transition: Evidence From Central Europe and Russia," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 440, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]
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- Swati Basu & Saul Estrin & Jan Svejnar, 2000. "Employment and Wages in Enterprises Under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe and Russia," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series 114, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School. [Downloadable!]

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