Government Versus Private Ownership of Public Goods

By Timothy J. Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, background): “[8] Baron D.”
Goodwill bazaar: NGO competition and giving to development (2010, background): “One issue which has been studied, for instance, by Besley and Ghatak (2001) is the optimal contracting structure to be implemented between a government and an NGO to carry out a particular development project.”
TRANSACTION COSTS AND CONTRACTING: The Practitioner Perspective (2005, methodology): “Scholars applying transaction cost theory to contracting have focused on the governments’ contracting decision and the structure of the contracting process ( Besley & Ghatak, 2001; Brown & Potoski, 2003c; Crocker & Masten, 2002; Ferris & Graddy, 1991; Hart, Shleifer, & Vishny, 1997).”
Building and Managing Facilities for Public Services (2006, neutral): “This provides the private sector with an incentive to develop innovative ways to meet requirements, and allows the public sector to harness the efficiency that can come from contestability, helping improve standards across the public sector.”
Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment (2014, background): “Dolton and O’Neill (1996, 2002) and Blundell et al. (2004) provide evaluations for the UK; for instance, Blundell et al. (2004) find that a mandatory job search program in UK increased outflows to jobs by 20%. Meyer (1995) and Ashenfelter et al.”
Questioni di Economia e Finanza (2010, neutral): “In the next section we present a model that explicitly features an endogenous link between the tightness of ﬁnancing conditions and the emissions.”
The Economics of Public-Private Partnerships (2004, background): “Besley and Ghatak (2001) focus on the provision of a public good.”
Incomplete Contracts and Public Ownership: Remarks, and an Application to Public-Private Partnerships (2002, neutral): “I will take a key property of a PPP to be that facility construction and service provision are 3 For some representative contributions, see Schmidt (1996), Laffont and Tirole (1993), Besley and Ghatak (2001), and King and Pitchford (2001).”
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering (2013, background): “Vickers and Yarrow (1988), Bös (1991), Shleifer (1998), and Martimort (2006).”