{"id":5318,"date":"2021-04-18T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manager.openweb.ro\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:33:04","slug":"the-agency-problem-in-the-romanian-state-owned-enterprise-the-contractual-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/?p=5318","title":{"rendered":"The Agency Problem in the Romanian State Owned Enterprise: The \u201cContractual Paradox\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5318\" class=\"elementor elementor-5318\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-73e96f13 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"73e96f13\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2d1655d1\" data-id=\"2d1655d1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a4a8474 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6a4a8474\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<span style=\"color: var(--c-contrast-800); font-size: 16.604px;\">Pages: 106-115<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-693d48c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"693d48c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong>.<span style=\"font-size: 16.604px;\">The first is informal and the latter is formal. Both contracts are concluded between the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">same actors. The first transaction sets the rent extraction from the firm, while the second contract establishes\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">the decision-making mechanism for the allocation of the firm\u2019s resources.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">The \u201crent\u201d is not treated in this study as a surplus, as in Ricardo-Marshall model, but as a profit.<\/span><\/p><p><strong style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">Aim of the study<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">This article is an analysis of a \u201ccontractual paradox\u201d which exists in the relation between\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">an agent and a principal, in the presence of rent extraction. This case focuses exclusively on the State\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">Owned Enterprise \u2013 SOE in Romania. If the model built by MC Jensen and WH Meckling examines the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">agency costs occurring in the presence of an information asymmetry and conflicts of interest between the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">agent and the principal, \u201cthe contractual paradox\u201d that I consider in this article assumes that the \u201cagent\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">and the \u201cprincipal\u201d cooperate to extract a rent\/profit detrimental to a State Owned Enterprise and, in this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">case, the conflict of interest between the two disappears or subsists only as regards rent extraction and risks\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">sharing. The \u201ccontractual paradox\u201d refers to the coexistence of two agency contracts in the same State\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\">Owned Enterprise.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; font-family: 'Open Sans', system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; font-weight: bold;\">Keywords:<\/span>\u00a0corporate governance, agent \u2013 principal, agency costs, rent seeking, rent extraction<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', system-ui, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.604px;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.604px; color: var(--c-contrast-800);\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3938d9 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"c3938d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/23m_106_115.pdf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Full text sources<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction.The first is informal and the latter is formal. Both contracts are concluded between the same actors. The first transaction sets the rent extraction from the firm, while the second contract establishes the decision-making mechanism for the allocation of the firm\u2019s resources. The \u201crent\u201d is not treated in this study as a surplus, as in Ricardo-Marshall model, but as a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Aim of the study. This article is an analysis of a \u201ccontractual paradox\u201d which exists in the relation between an agent and a principal, in the presence of rent extraction. This case focuses exclusively on the State Owned Enterprise \u2013 SOE in Romania. If the model built by MC Jensen and WH Meckling examines the agency costs occurring in the presence of an information asymmetry and conflicts of interest between the agent and the principal, \u201cthe contractual paradox\u201d that I consider in this article assumes that the \u201cagent\u201d and the \u201cprincipal\u201d cooperate to extract a rent\/profit detrimental to a State Owned Enterprise and, in this case, the conflict of interest between the two disappears or subsists only as regards rent extraction and risks sharing. The \u201ccontractual paradox\u201d refers to the coexistence of two agency contracts in the same State Owned Enterprise.<br \/>\nKeywords: corporate governance, agent \u2013 principal, agency costs, rent seeking, rent extraction <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[83,84,226,830,831],"coauthors":[1449],"class_list":{"0":"post-5318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-30","7":"category-2016-vol-23-issue-1-may","8":"tag-agency-costs","9":"tag-agent-principal","10":"tag-corporate-governance","11":"tag-rent-extraction","12":"tag-rent-seeking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8036,"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/8036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manager.faa.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}