Contractual Choices and Technical Efficiency in Public Procurement: The Case of Regional Railway Transport in France

Numéro: 2015-5 Miguel Amaral and Jean-Christophe Thiebaud – Contractual Choices and Technical Efficiency in Public Procurement: The Case of Regional Railway Transport in France Abstract: This paper contributes to the analysis of the impact of contractual design on the performance in public procurement. It focuses on the case of railway regional transport in France, where the regions were given the prerogatives…

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Water under the Bridge: Determinants of Franchise Renewal in Water Provision

9 avril 2015 Chong, E., Saussier S., and Silverman B.,Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 31 (suppl 1): i3-i39, (2015) — L’article Abstract : Since Williamson’s 1976 study of franchise bidding for natural monopolies, there has been extensive debate concerning the degree to which transaction‐cost problems actually afflict government franchising in practice. We contribute to this debate by proposing that municipalities…

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Vertical Separation in Rail Transport: How do Prices Influence Coordination?

Numéro: 2015-4 Miguel Amaral and Jean-Christophe Thiebaud – Vertical Separation in Rail Transport: How do Prices Influence Coordination? Abstract: This paper contributes to the debates over the relative performance of governance modes in network industries. The issues of vertical separation and integration in network industries have been extensively studied from several perspectives including competition eff ect, production cost synergies or coordination costs.…

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Les contrats de partenariats public-privé : la soutenabilité budgétaire au détriment du partage optimal des risques

18 mars 2015 Frédéric Marty et Phuong Tra Tran – Les contrats de partenariats public-privé : la soutenabilité budgétaire au détriment du partage optimal des risques, Business Management Review, 4(1):2015. Abstract: L’opportunité économique des partenariats public-privé repose sur l’allocation optimale des risques, mais il est possible que l’accroissement du coût des montages ne se traduise pas par une réduction significative du périmètre de…

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Repeated Interactions and Endogenous Contractual Incompleteness. Experimental Evidence

Jean Beuve et Claudine Desrieux, Repeated Interactions and Endogenous Contractual Incompleteness. Experimental Evidence, Theory and Decision, forthcoming. Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the interaction between repeated transactions and endogenous contractual incompleteness. We design an indefinitely repeated games experiment between identifiable players. In this experiment, the probability of continuation and the level of shared information vary over the treatments. The…

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The Quality of Governance and the Use of Negotiated Procurement Procedures: Evidence from the European Union

Numéro: 2015-3 Eshien Chong, Michael Klien and Stéphane Saussier – The Quality of Governance and the Use of Negotiated Procurement Procedures: Evidence from the European Union Abstract: A key phase in any public-private contracting setting involves the selection of a private contracting partner. Although open competitive tenders (open auctions) are usually the preferred mechanism, recent developments in the academic literature have pointed…

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Political Contestability and Contract Rigidity: An Analysis of Procurement Contracts

Numéro: 2015-2 Jean Beuve, Marian Moszoro and Stéphane Saussier – Political Contestability and Contract Rigidity: An Analysis of Procurement Contracts Abstract: We compare procurement contracts where the procurer is either a public agent or a private corporation. Using algorithmic data reading and textual analysis on a rich dataset of contracts for a standardized product and service from a single provider, we find…

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20 Dissertations d’Économie Concours d’Entrée aux Écoles de Commerce Prépas ECE

Simon Porcher et Martin Merle – 20 Dissertations d’Économie Concours d’Entrée aux Écoles de Commerce Prépas ECE Au travers de 20 dissertations entièrement rédigées, ce livre accompagne les étudiants dans leur préparation aux épreuves d’économie du concours d’entrée aux Écoles de commerce, en intégrant les dernières modifications du programme. Plus qu’une leçon, chaque dissertation montre les…

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A Conditional Markov Regime Switching Model to Study Margins: Application to the French Fuel Retail Markets

Raphaël Homayoun Boroumand, Stéphane Goutte, Simon Porcher, Thomas Porcher Abstract : This paper uses a regime-switching model that is built on mean-reverting and local volatility processes combined with two Markov regime-switching processes to understand the market structure of the French fuel retail market over the period 1990-2013. The volatil-ity structure of these models depends on a first exogenous Markov chain,…

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