Miguel Amaral

 Research Interests :

• Applied industrial organisation
• Contract theories
• Public-private partnerships
• Benchmarking, Efficiency Analysis
• Transport Economics

Thesis title : Modes  of Organization and Performances. The Case of Urban Public Transport in Europe (download the full version)

News : Miguel Amaral & Anne Yvrande-Billon received the 2010 Junior researcher Award for their paper "Make or Buy Urban Public Services: A Rational Choice?" at the 1st International Conference on Economics and Management of Public Utilities (Bocconi University, Milano, 15-16 July 2010).

Publications :

• “Does Competition for the Field Improve Cost Efficiency? Evidence from the London Bus Tendering Model” (avec S. Saussier et A. Yvrande-Billon), Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, forthcoming
• “Make or Buy Urban Public Transport Services: A Rational Choice ?” (avec A. Yvrande-Billon), Economics of Governance, accepté sous réserve de modifications
•  “Auction Procedures and Competition in Public Services: The Case of Urban Transport in France and London”, Utilities Policy, 17, pp.166-175, 2009 (avec S. Saussier et A. Yvrande-Billon)
• “Public vs. Private Management of Public Utilities - The Case of Urban Public Transport in Europe”, Research in Transportation Economics, 22 (1), pp.85-90, 2008.

Working Papers :

• "Single Till versus Dual Till:  the Case of Railway Stations Regulation", (avec S. de Cara) en cours.
• “Local Authorities’ Capacity for Expertise, Contractual Choices and Urban Public Transit Efficiency” , en cours.

Other Publications :

• "L'impact de la concurrence sur le coût d'exploitation du transport collectif urbain : l'exemple du Grand Londres", Transports Urbains, 115, pp. 22-24, 2009.

Conferences 2011 :

• Fourth Anual Conference on Competition and Regulation in Network Industries,  Brussels, 25 Novembre
• 2nd European Rail Transport Regulation Forum, Florence School of Regulation (EUI) & Chair of Management of Network Industries (EPFL), 23 mai (without communication)

Conferences 2010 :

• CICA-IFI 2010 Conference, World Bank, Washington, 10-11 Février

Conferences 2009 :

•  13^ème Conférence Annuelle de l’ISNIE (International Society for New Institutional Economics), University of Berkeley, San Fransisco, 18-20 Juin
• XXVI^èmes Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée, Dijon, 4-5 Juin
• ESNIE (European School on New Institutional Economics), Cargèse (France), 15-20 Mai. 

Conferences 2008 :

• 7^th Conference on Applied Infrastructure Research, Berlin, 10-11 Octobre
• LVII^ème congrès annuel de l'AFSE (Association Française de Science Economique), Paris, 18-19 Septembre
• 35^ème conférence de l’EARIE (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics), Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, 4-6 Septembre
• Third International Conference on Funding Transport Infrastructure & 10th “Journée Transport”, Paris, 19-20 Juin

 Teaching :

• Master 2 IREN (Paris X, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris XI, Supelec) Les Nouveaux Mécanismes Concurrentiels : Enchères et Contrats (since 2009)

Liste d'articles pour l'évaluation commune avec Eshien Chong :

- * Bajari, P. and S. Tadelis, 2001, “Incentives versus transaction costs: A theory of procurement contracts”, RAND Journal of Economics 32(3): pp.287-307.

- * Amaral, M., S. Saussier and A. Yvrande-Billon, 2008, "Auction procedures and competition in public services: The case of urban public transport in France and London", Utilities Policy, 17, 166-175.

- Amaral, M. and A. Yvrande-Billon, 2009, “Make or buy urban public transport services: A rational choice?”, Working paper.

- Estache, A. & A. Iimi (2009), “(Un)bundling infrastructure procurement: evidence from water supply and sewage project”, WB Policy research Working Paper 4854. AM et AG

- * Athias, L., 2008, “Political accountability, incentives and contractual design of Public Private Partnerships”, Working Paper

 -* Hong, H. and M. Shum, 2002, “ Increasing competition and the winner's curse: Evidence from procurement”, Review of Economic Studies 69, pp. 871-898 AN

- Porter, R. H. and J. D. Zona, 1993, “Detection of bid rigging in procurement auctions”, Journal of Political Economy 101(3), pp. 518-538 NB et BC

- Chong, E., C. Staropoli and A. Yvrande-Billon (2010) “Enchères ou négociations dans les marchés publics: Une analyse empirique”, Working Paper. JY et CT

 - Littechild, S., 2002, “Competitive bidding for a long-term electricity distribution contract”, Review of Network Economics 1, pp. 1-38. CTW et LC

(* Pour les étudiants qui ont suivi uniquement le cours sur les PPP d' Eshien Chong)

• Economics of Public Organizations (University of Paris 1,  2009-2010)
• Organizations and Market Theories (University of Paris1,  2006-2010)