Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

By Jonathan D. Levin, S. Tadelis. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. M. Warner
2. G. Bel
3. A. Hefetz
4. Xavier Fageda
5. E. Vigoda-Gadot
6. O. Petersen
7. Ulf Hjelmar
8. K. Vrangbæk

In Strategy and Management

1. M. Warner
2. G. Bel
3. Xavier Fageda
4. A. Hefetz
5. Jered B. Carr
6. O. Petersen
7. Ulf Hjelmar
8. K. Vrangbæk

Citations in the corpus

• 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 fi nd 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…”
• What Have We Learned about the Performance of Council‐Manager Government? A Review and Synthesis of the Research (2015, background): “Levin and Tadelis (2010) proposed that councilmanager cities would be less likely to contract for services with substantial transaction risk, but that the contracting decision in mayor-council cities would be less influenced by the level of difficulty of effectively contracting the service because…”
• Privatization and Intermunicipal Contracting: The US Local Government Experience 1992–2007 (2012, background): “Several scholars have used a transactions costs framework to assess intermunicipal contracting in comparison with for-profi t contracting and found important differences by service and by place (Brown et al, 2008; Hefetz and Warner, 2012; Levin and Tadelis, 2010; Nelson, 1997).”
• Insourcing and Outsourcing (2012, methodology): “This theory has been applied to public-sector contracting by Sclar (2000) and others (Brown et al., 2008; Hefetz & Warner 2004, 2007, 2012; Levin & Tadelis, 2010; Nelson, 1997; Whittington, 2012/this issue).”
• What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation? (2017, background): “The same is true of Levin and Tadelis (2010) and Zullo (2009); in both cases, we reviewed working papers dated 2005.”
• Factors explaining inter-municipal cooperation in service delivery: a meta-regression analysis (2016, background): “Most studies find cooperation to be negatively related to population as larger cities enjoy internalscale economies (Levin and Tadelis 2010; Hefetz, Warner, and Vigoda-Gadot 2012; Bel, Fageda, and Mur 2014).”