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Firm Performance and Selection in an emerging Economy: Micro Evidence from Slovenia

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  • Konings, Jozef

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

  • Ana Xavier

Abstract

We investigate the determinants of firm survival and growth (employment and sales), in the context of transition from plan to market, using firm data from Slovenia spanning from 1994 to 1998 and OLS and Heckman selection models. Firm and industry pre-transition conditions including size, ownership, financial constraints, trade and market structure are used to understand what firms best performed in the Slovenian transition. Small, private, exporting and capital intensive firms grew the fastest. Large firms with positive profits and higher sunk costs were more likely to survive compare to firms with harder financial constraints, high costs or trading abroad.

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  • Konings, Jozef & Ana Xavier, 2003. "Firm Performance and Selection in an emerging Economy: Micro Evidence from Slovenia," Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 127, Royal Economic Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecj:ac2003:127
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    Cited by:

    1. Ghosh, Saibal, 2009. "Do productivity and ownership really matter for growth? Firm-level evidence," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 26(6), pages 1403-1413, November.
    2. Buehler Stefan & Kaiser Christian & Jaeger Franz, 2005. "Competition Policy and Exit Rates: Evidence from Switzerland," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 4(1), pages 1-30, November.
    3. Saso Polanec, 2004. "On the Evolution of Size and Productivity in Transition: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing Firms," LICOS Discussion Papers 15404, LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven.
    4. Xiaomin Zhao & Ping Lan, 2017. "How Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Change Their Dynamics in New Product Innovation?," Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research, Asian Online Journal Publishing Group, vol. 4(1), pages 25-31.

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    Keywords

    firm growth and survival; owndership; competition; financial constraints;
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    JEL classification:

    • P2 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies
    • P3 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
    • L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing

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