Contracting or Public Delivery? The Importance of Service, Market and Management Characteristics
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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- Insourcing and Outsourcing (2012, background): “City managers also mix public and private delivery for the same service, as a means to benchmark costs, keep some control over service delivery and ensure failsafe delivery in the event of contract failure (Hefetz et al., 2012a; Warner & Hefetz, 2008).”
- Private finance for public goods: social impact bonds (2013, background): “…private markets, to a more sophisticated understanding of problems with contract design and high transaction costs (Williamson 1999; Van Slyke 2007; Hefetz and Warner 2012), monitoring (Johnston and Girth 2012), lack of competition (Girth et al. 2012), and the need for ongoing market regulation…”
- Factors explaining inter-municipal cooperation in service delivery: a meta-regression analysis (2016, background): “Cooperation requires attention to political institutions and the structure of policy networks, which places an important role on the structure of management and markets among local governments in the region where cooperation takes place (Hefetz and Warner 2012).”
- Is Contracting out of Public Services still the Great Panacea? A Systematic Review of Studies on Economic and Quality Effects from 2000 to 2014 (2018, background): “Most studies measuring competition find that competition for public services is limited (Dijkgraaf and Gradus 2007 ; Levin and Tadelis 2010; Hefetz and Warner 2012), although the more precise link between market characteristics, institutional settings and outcomes of contracting out still needs furt”
- Government Contracts and “Managing the Market” (2012, background): “…for many local government contracts is often surprisingly weak (Amirkhanyan, 2007; Fernandez, 2009; Warner & Bel, 2008; Johnston et al., 2004); Hefetz and Warner (2011) conclude that on average, there are fewer than two (1.67) alternative providers available to governments seeking to…”
- Does Cooperation Reduce Service Delivery Costs? Evidence from Residential Solid Waste Services (2014, background): “Finally, Hefetz and Warner (2012) emphasize the role cooperation can play in services when competition is low, and Hefetz, Warner and Vigoda-Gadot (2012) find that cooperation is negatively related to population and more frequent in non-metrocore areas.”
- What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation? (2017, background): “Indeed, studies for the US tend to find evidence of more frequent privatisations in the suburbs, where external provider availability is greater (Fernandez, Ryu, and Brudney 2008; Mohr, Deller, and Halstead 2010; Hefetz, Warner and Vigoda-Gadot, 2012; Hefetz and Warner 2012).”
- Did New Public Management Matter? An empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size (2015, background): “…high costs associated with contracting out include asymmetric information; the management and supervision of contracts; ‘non-contractible’ elements related to service delivery; contractual incompleteness; and limited availability of competitive suppliers in the market (Hefetz and Warner 2012).”