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

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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

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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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Paper provided by Royal Economic Society in its series Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 with number 127.

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

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NEP-ALL-2003-06-16 (All new papers)
NEP-ENT-2003-06-16 (Entrepreneurship)

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Stefan Buehler & Christian Kaiser & Franz Jaeger, 2004. "Competition Policy and Exit Rates: Evidence from Switzerland," Working Papers 0405, University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute, revised Apr 2005. [Downloadable!]
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- Stefan Buehler & Christian Kaiser & Franz Jaeger, 2005. "Competition Policy and Exit Rates: Evidence from Switzerland," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 0(1). [Downloadable!]
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