Contracting Out Public Transit Services: An Incentive Performance-Based Approach
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Keywords
public transportation; privatization; performance-based contracting; bonus / malus mechanism;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- L24 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Contracting Out; Joint Ventures
- L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-REG-2021-04-05 (Regulation)
- NEP-TRE-2021-04-05 (Transport Economics)
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