Revue d’economie industrielle, 2013, Vol. 141, No. 1, pp. 117-148This paper examines the impact of renegotiations on contractual relationship. Using an original data-set of expired public-private contracts in the French car park sector, we investigate the link between renegotiations [...]
Journal of economic behavior and organization, 2013, No. 89, pp. 167-186French municipalities often contract out the provision of local public services to private companies, and regularly choose the same private operator for a range of different services. We develop a [...]
Construction management and economics, 2014, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 349-361Public-private partnership (PPP) policy strategies emphasize the ability of PPPs to foster innovation. Evidence reported in literature supports less the inherent quality of PPPs for innovation and more the importance [...]
Applied economics, 2014, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 539-555As first noticed by Coase (1946), a standard result in utility regulation is that efficiency requires two-part tariffs with marginal prices set to marginal costs and fixed fees equal to [...]
Applied economics, 2014, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 556-572This article uses a data envelopment analysis (DEA) and a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to assess the relative technical efficiency of 177 decision-making units in the French water supply sector [...]
Nieuw juridisch weekblad, 2014, Vol. 300, pp. 290-300Het nieuwe voorstel van verordening inzake de verwerking van persoonsgegevens bevat een 'recht op dataportabiliteit', waarmee de Commissie de internetgebruiker meer controle wil geven over zijn persoonsgegevens. Naast een analyse [...]
Journal of law, economics and organization, 2015, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 3-39Williamson's 1976 study of natural-monopoly franchise bidding launched extensive debate concerning the degree to which transaction-cost problems afflict government franchising. We propose that municipalities vary in ability to discipline franchisees, [...]
Utilities policy, 2010, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 154-162This paper investigates the impact of governance structure on firm performance (i.e., retail prices) using a database of 765 German water suppliers. Controlling for scale economies as well as technical [...]