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Potenzialità e criticità del Partenariato Pubblico Privato in Italia

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  • Elisabetta Iossa

    (Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Brunel University, CEDI e CMPO)

  • Federico Antellini Russo

    (CONSIP, Roma e LUISS Guido Carli)

Abstract

In this paper we discuss procedural and contractual aspects of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in Italy, in the light of the economic theory of contracts and of incentives. We emphasize the potential role for PPPs for infrastructure development in Italy and the inefficiencies that arise in practice because of administrative risk, procedural complexity that distort competition and inefficient allocation of risks between the public and the private sector.

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  • Elisabetta Iossa & Federico Antellini Russo, 2008. "Potenzialità e criticità del Partenariato Pubblico Privato in Italia," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, vol. 98(3), pages 125-158, May-June.
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    Keywords

    incentives; public-service provision and public private partnership;

    JEL classification:

    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • H57 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Procurement

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