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Privatisation, State Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from China

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  • Nigel Driffield
  • Jun Du

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This paper examines the relationship between the transfer of ownership between the public and private sectors of Chinese industry, and its impacts on performance. We link ownership changes to productivity growth, and demonstrate that privatisation contributes significantly. We offer an extension that is generally ignored in the literature, in looking at firms that are taken back into state ownership, and evaluating the productivity growth effects of this. Further, we highlight the well-understood simultaneity problems, and demonstrate the hazard of ignoring the issue by comparing various estimators, including the modified control function approach. In general, the results stress the importance of allowing for such endogeneity when evaluating the productivity effects of ownership change.

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  • Nigel Driffield & Jun Du, 2007. "Privatisation, State Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from China," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 215-239.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ijecbs:v:14:y:2007:i:2:p:215-239
    DOI: 10.1080/13571510701344004
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