Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108166 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IEHAS Discussion Papers No. MT-DP - 2009/26
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
privatization
government objectives
Romania
JEL: 
L33
P26
ISBN: 
978-963-9796-85-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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