PublicPrivate Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
Publicprivate partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The chapters in this book provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the contributions in the book identify lines of research that invite further investigation, namely: problems related to the degree of risk transfer; the challenges posed by renegotiation; and evaluation of PPPs results. The content of this book will be of interest for scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Local Government Studies.
Germ Bel is Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona, Spain, where he holds the Pasqual Maragall Chair of Economy and Territory. His research focuses on public sector reform and public policy evaluation.
Trevor L. Brown is the Director of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University in Columbus, USA. Professor Browns primary research deals with government contracting and contract management.
Rui Cunha Marques is Professor of Systems and Management at the Instituto Superior Tcnico (IST) of the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal. His area of research addresses the regulation, performance and procurement of public utilities.
PublicPrivate Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
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Germ Bel, Trevor L. Brown and Rui Cunha Marques
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Contents
Germ Bel, Trevor Brown & Rui Cunha Marques
Laure Athias
Daniel Albalate, Germ Bel & R. Richard Geddes
Carlos Oliveira Cruz & Rui Cunha Marques
Eoin Reeves
Pedro Simes, Pedro Cavalho & Rui Cunha Marques
Mattheus Wassenaar, Tom Groot & Raymond Gradus
Germ Bel, Xavier Fageda & Melania Mur
Albert Martnez-Lacambra
The chapters in this book were originally published in Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
PublicPrivate Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
Germ Bel, Trevor Brown & Rui Cunha Marques
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 303311
Chapter 2
Local Public-Services Provision under PublicPrivate Partnerships: Contractual Design and Contracting Parties Incentives
Laure Athias
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 312331
Chapter 3
Recovery Risk and Labor Costs in PublicPrivate Partnerships: Contractual Choice in the US Water Industry
Daniel Albalate, Germ Bel & R. Richard Geddes
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 332351
Chapter 4
Endogenous Determinants for Renegotiating Concessions: Evidence from Local Infrastructure
Carlos Oliveira Cruz & Rui Cunha Marques
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 352374
Chapter 5
The Not So Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Over Twelve Years of PPP in Ireland
Eoin Reeves
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 375395
Chapter 6
The Market Structure of Urban Solid Waste Services: How Different Models Lead to Different Results
Pedro Simes, Pedro Cavalho & Rui Cunha Marques
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 396413
Chapter 7
Municipalities Contracting Out Decisions: An Empirical Study on Motives
Mattheus Wassenaar, Tom Groot & Raymond Gradus
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 414434
Chapter 8
Why Do Municipalities Cooperate to Provide Local Public Services? An Empirical Analysis
Germ Bel, Xavier Fageda & Melania Mur
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 435454
Chapter 9
Governance in Public and Private Management
Albert Martnez-Lacambra
Local Government Studies, volume 39, issue 3 (June 2013) pp. 455459
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GERM BEL*, TREVOR BROWN** & RUI CUNHA MARQUES
*Department of Economic Policy and World Economy, Universitat, de Barcelona, Spain; **John Glenn School of Public Affairs,The Ohio State University, USA; CEG-IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
A BSTRACT Publicprivate partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, facilities and services. Three fundamental questions frame the use of PPPs at the local level: What do PPPs look like? What gives rise to the use of PPPs? And, what are the outcomes of PPPs? The articles in this symposium provide insightful answers to these questions. In addition, the symposium contributions identify lines of research that invite further investigation, namely: problems related to the degree of risk transfer; the challenges posed by renegotiation; and evaluation of PPPs results.
Introduction
When local governments produce and deliver big, complex goods and services, like road networks or water treatment and distribution systems, they increasingly enter into big, complex arrangements. These complex ventures are commonly referred to as publicprivate partnerships (PPPs). They usually take the form of a contractual agreement between the government and the private partner (contractual PPPs), in what can be seen as an extension of the standard procurement method, contracting out, which has evolved to include high-powered incentives. This requires transferring risk from the government to the private partner, in order to address traditional problems with moral hazard and quality measurement. PPPs can also adopt an organisational form (institutional PPPs), as the government and the private partner may share ownership of an organisation that is in charge of providing the infrastructure, the facility or the related services.
