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Financing Costs and the Efficiency of Public-Private Partnerships

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  • Besart Avdiu
  • Alfons Weichenrieder

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The paper compares provision of public infrastructure via public-private partnerships (PPPs) with provision under government management. Due to soft budget constraints of government management, PPPs exert more effort and therefore have a cost advantage in building infrastructure. At the same time, hard budget constraints for PPPs introduce a bankruptcy risk and bankruptcy costs. Consequently, if bankruptcy costs are high, PPPs may be less efficient than public management, although this does not result from PPPs’ higher interest costs.

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  • Besart Avdiu & Alfons Weichenrieder, 2020. "Financing Costs and the Efficiency of Public-Private Partnerships," CESifo Working Paper Series 8711, CESifo.
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    Keywords

    public-private partnerships; infrastructure; financing costs; default;
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    JEL classification:

    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation

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