Public-Private Partnerships and Prices: Evidence from Water Distribution in France

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Public procurement design: Lessons from the private sector (2012, background): “An important next step is to measure the inefficiencies imposed by fixed price contracts when adaptation is needed.”
A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts (2013, background): “See for instance Chong et al. (2006) and Estache (2006). 6In this paper we assume away possible renegotiation of the concession duration for simplicity.”
Re-municipalisation in the early twenty-first century: water in France and energy in Germany (2013, background): “…in 2009 showed that private water prices were on average 31% higher than in public water services.11 An econometric study in 2006 found that, after taking account of all other contextual factors, private operation still led to prices that were 17% higher than public provision (Chong et al. 2006).”
The Economics of Managing Scarce Water Resources (2010, background): “Empirical evidence suggests that in both France (Chong et al. 2006) and Spain (Martı́nez-Espiñeira et al.”