Posts de Stéphane Saussier

Numéro: 2009-4 Contract Renewal as an Incentive Device – An Application to the French Urban Public Transport Sector Axel GAUTIER (HEC-ULg and CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain) & Anne YVRANDE-BILLON (CES, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne) Abstract: In the French urban public transport industry, services are often delegated to a private firm by the mean of a fixed-term…

Numéro: 2009-3 Make or Buy Urban Public Transport Services: A Rational Choice? Miguel AMARAL & Anne YVRANDE-BILLON (CES, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Abstract: In this article, our aim is to study the determinants of the trade-off between in-house and outsourced utilities provision.  More precisely, we focus on the French urban public transport sector. With regard to the issue…

Numéro: 2009-2 Didier Chabaud – Thema, U. Cergy Pontoise, Arnaud Lavit d’Hautefort – Ytae, et Stéphane Saussier – Gregor, U. Paris 1 Abstract: In this article, we investigate the relative performances of companyowned outlets vs. franchised outlets using an original database consisting of 150 units of a French chain. At first glance, the financial and quality performances…

Numéro: 2009-1 Claudine Desrieux – ERMES, U. Paris 2, Eshien Chong – ADIS, U. Paris 11 et Stéphane Saussier – GREGOR, U. Paris 1 Abstract: The contracting out of local public services has kept on increasing over the past decades. We observe that local governments regularly choose the same private operator for their different services, i.e.…