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Is the PPP model applicable across sectors?

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  • Riess, Armin

    (European Investment Bank, Economic and Financial Studies)

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Focussing on two key features of a PPP - the bundling of construction and operation of an infrastructure asset, for one, and private ownership for another - this paper argues that the PPP model is suitable for some public services but not for others. While the incentive-oriented mechanism of bundling and private ownership fosters cost savings in the provision of public services, such savings might come at the expense of public-interest objectives, which - after all - set public services apart from private goods and services. The challenge then is to find out whether the conditions for cost savings to outweigh departures from public-interest objectives are more likely to exist for some services than for others. This paper answers affirmatively, putting the ease (or difficulty) of contracting on public services - notably their publicinterest objectives - at the heart of the argument.

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  • Riess, Armin, 2005. "Is the PPP model applicable across sectors?," EIB Papers 6/2005, European Investment Bank, Economics Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:eibpap:2005_006
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    Keywords

    public-private partnerships; economic sectors; incomplete contracts; ownership;
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    JEL classification:

    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
    • H57 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Procurement
    • L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out

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