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Title: Managerial Career Concerns, Privatization and Restructuring in Transition Economies

Author(s): G�rard Roland and Khalid Sekkat

Publication Date: March 1996

Keyword(s): Managerial Career Concerns, Privatization and Restructuring and Transition Economies

Programme Area(s): Transition Economics

Abstract: We set up a dynamic adverse selection model to explain how career concerns may induce managers in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to restructure their firms. It is shown how government monopsony power over managers led to the ratchet effect under the socialist economy, even under reforms coming short of privatization. The introduction of a managerial labour market, through privatization, introduces competition for managers and eliminates the ratchet effect, thereby inducing managers to restructure. Prospects of privatization also provide incentives to restructure even when managerial skills are asset-specific, provided insider control is strong enough to give managers enough rents from privatization. The model is consistent with the empirical evidence on restructuring of SOEs in transition economies.

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Roland, G and Sekkat, K. 1996. 'Managerial Career Concerns, Privatization and Restructuring in Transition Economies'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1363