Arbeitspapier

Political Objectives and Privatization Decisions - Selection of Firms into Privatization or Long-Term State Ownership in Romania

With the help of a peculiar institutional feature of early Romanian privatization, when a group of firms was explicitly banned to become private, we test which factors contributed to the selection of firms into long-term state ownership. We find that politicians sheltered large and inefficient firms from privatization, which paid low wages and had high overdue payments. These results are consistent with minimization of employment losses, even if efficiency enhancement of privatization or revenue maximization had to be sacrificed. We hypothesize that this behavior was induced by the unfavorable economic conditions in Romania which brought about large employment losses during the first several years of economic transition.

ISBN
978-963-9796-85-0
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IEHAS Discussion Papers ; No. MT-DP - 2009/26

Classification
Wirtschaft
Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
Subject
privatization
government objectives
Romania
Privatisierung
Politisches Ziel
Öffentliches Unternehmen
Rumänien

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Szentpéteri, Ádám
Telegdy, Álmos
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
(where)
Budapest
(when)
2009

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Szentpéteri, Ádám
  • Telegdy, Álmos
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2009

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