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Title: How Efficient are Firms in Transition Countries? Firm-Level Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Author(s): Jozef Konings and Alexander Repkin

Publication Date: March 1998

Keyword(s): Efficiency, Firm Size and stochastic production frontier

Programme Area(s): Transition Economics

Abstract: Stochastic frontier production functions are estimated for Bulgarian (1993?5) and Romanian (1994?5) manufacturing industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across industrial sectors in each country. We find strong evidence of a positive relationship between firm technical efficiency levels and their profitability, which suggests the reforms have succeeded in creating hard budget constraints. The relationship between firm efficiency and size is also found to be positive, suggesting big industrial firms in the former planned economies are not necessarily inefficient.

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Konings, J and Repkin, A. 1998. 'How Efficient are Firms in Transition Countries? Firm-Level Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1839