Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services

ISBN-13: 9780367739171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 165 str.

Germ? Bel; Trevor Brown; Rui Cunha Marques

Opis

Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services provides a comparative overview of the emergence, organization and performance of public-private partnerships around the globe.

This book was published as a special issue of Local Government Studies.

Spis treści

1. Public–Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services  2. Local Public-Services Provision under Public–Private Partnerships: Contractual Design and Contracting Parties Incentives  3. Recovery Risk and Labor Costs in Public–Private Partnerships: Contractual Choice in the US Water Industry  4. Endogenous Determinants for Renegotiating Concessions: Evidence from Local Infrastructure  5. The Not So Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Over Twelve Years of PPP in Ireland  6. The Market Structure of Urban Solid Waste Services: How Different Models Lead to Different Results  7. Municipalities’ Contracting Out Decisions: An Empirical Study on Motives  8. Why Do Municipalities Cooperate to Provide Local Public Services? An Empirical Analysis  9. Governance in Public and Private Management

O autorze

Germà Bel is Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona, where he holds the Pasqual Maragall Chair of Economy and Territory. His research focuses on public sector reform and public policy evaluation.

Trevor L. Brown is the Director of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University in Columbus. Professor Brown's primary research deals with government contracting and contract management.

Rui Cunha Marques is Professor Systems and Management at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal. His area of research addresses the regulation, performance and procurement of public utilities.