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Sections of this paper draw on the author's working paper, “The Polish State-Owned Enterprise Sector in 1990*, CEP Working Paper No. 106 and Discussion Paper No. 36, and Socialist Economies Reform Unit (World Bank) Research Paper No. 9. Comments of and discussions with Marek Belka, Fabrizio Coricelli, Saul Estrin, Stanislaw Gomulka, Marek Góra, Hartmut Lehmann, Krzysztof Marczewski, Andrew Scott, Jon Stern, members of the staff of GUS, and the anonymous referees, are gratefully acknowledged. Polly Vizard and Une Lee provided excellent research assistance. The paper is a product of a joint research project on “Enterprise Behavior and Economic Reforms: A Comparative Study in Central and Eastern Europe” undertaken by researchers at the World Bank, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and the Portuguese Catholic University. Financial support by the Leverhulme Trust and the World Bank is gratefully acknowledged. The Centre for Economic Performance is financed by the Economic and Social Research Council. This paper represents the individual views of the author and not those of the institutions or persons mentioned above.
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Schaffer, M. The Polish State-Owned Enterprise Sector and the Recession in 1990. Comp Econ Stud 34, 58–85 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1057/ces.1992.5
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