The Privatization Decision

By David M. van Slyke, C. Hammonds. 2003

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. G. Bel
2. Xavier Fageda
3. M. Warner
4. Amanda M. Girth
5. J. Johnston
6. Barry Bozeman
7. A. Hefetz
8. Monica Gaughan

In Public Administration

1. M. Warner
2. G. Bel
3. Xavier Fageda
4. Amanda M. Girth
5. J. Johnston
6. Barry Bozeman
7. A. Hefetz
8. D. Sarewitz

In Strategy and Management

1. M. Warner
2. G. Bel
3. Xavier Fageda
4. Amanda M. Girth
5. J. Johnston
6. Barry Bozeman
7. A. Hefetz
8. Christoph Grimpe

Citations in the corpus

• Privatization and the Decline of Labour's Share: International Evidence from Network Industries (2012, unknown): “Donahue (1989) also observes that by comparing European (state-owned) airlines with US airlines, that public firms employ too many people, leading to higher costs.”
• Public‐Value Failure: When Efficient Markets May Not Do (2002, background): “…ideas about market-failure criteria and economics-based concepts for allocation decisions are quite familiar, a brief description should suffice.2 Donahue (1991, 18) provides a succinct description: Market failure occurs when “prices lie—that is, when the prices of goods and services give false…”
• Government Contracts and “Managing the Market” (2012, background): “Donahue (1989) emphasizes the “cardinal importance of competition” in privatization, stating that Most of the kick in privatization comes from the greater scope for rivalry when functions are contracted out, not from private provision per se . . . Efforts to compensate by other means for the…”
• COMPETITION OR MONOPOLY? COMPARING PRIVATIZATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE US AND SPAIN (2008, background): “In fact, studies by Dubin and Navarro (1988) and the OECD (2000a) have found that municipal provision is associated with lower costs compared to strictly private markets.”
• Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis (2009, unknown): “Besides public choice insights, some authors have suggested exploiting economies of scale as a rational for privatization (Donahue, 1989).”
• Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies (2007, background): “One proposes that privatisation works by introducing competition where there is a public monopoly (Savas, 1987), while the second points to the possibility of exploiting economies of scale when the public service has been delivered over a suboptimal jurisdiction (Donahue, 1989).”