Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

1925 - 2025

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Volume 81, issue 4, 2010

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUASI‐MARKETS IN DOMICILIARY CARE: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE pp. 501-507

Marthe Nyssens

LES QUASI‐MARCHES DANS L’AIDE A DOMICILE: UNE MISE EN PERSPECTIVE EUROPEENNE pp. 509-536

Laurent Gardin, Marthe Nyssens and Paolo Minguzzi

LA GOUVERNANCE PAR L’EVALUATION. LES QUASI‐MARCHES DANS LES SERVICES A DOMICILE pp. 537-558

Laurent Fraisse and Stéphane Nassaut

MEASURING QUALITY IN SOCIAL CARE SERVICES: THEORY AND PRACTICE pp. 559-582

Juliette Malley and Jose Luis Fernandez

DOES THE MISSION OF PROVIDERS MATTER ON A QUASI‐MARKET? THE CASE OF THE BELGIAN ‘SERVICE VOUCHER’ SCHEME pp. 583-610

Jacques Defourny, Arnaud Henry, Stéphane Nassaut and Marthe Nyssens

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ALLOCATION OF DECISION‐MAKING ACROSS STAKEHOLDER GROUPS: THE CASE OF PERSONAL CARE INDUSTRIES pp. 611-630

Avner Ben‐Ner and Ting Ren

Volume 81, issue 3, 2010

INCENTIVE COMPATIBLE MECHANISM DESIGN AND FIRM GROWTH: EXPERIENCES FROM TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR REGULATION pp. 357-387

Sumit K Majumdar

HOW DID STATE‐OWNED BANKS RESPOND TO PRIVATIZATION? EVIDENCE FROM THE INDIAN EXPERIMENT pp. 389-421

Saibal Ghosh

NEW ZEALAND CREDIT UNION MERGERS pp. 423-444

Lynn Mcalevey, Alexander Sibbald and David Tripe

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AS INSURANCE: THE INVESTMENT BEHAVIOUR OF NON‐PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS pp. 445-465

John Bennett, Elisabetta Iossa and Gabriella Legrenzi

THE CO‐OPERATIVE REFORM PROCESS IN TANZANIA AND SRI LANKA pp. 467-500

Johnston Birchall and Richard Simmons

Volume 81, issue 2, 2010

PUTTING THE CIVIL SOCIETY SECTOR ON THE ECONOMIC MAP OF THE WORLD pp. 167-210

Lester M. Salamon

THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL FORM IN THE MIXED MARKET FOR FOSTER CARE pp. 211-245

Jeremy Thornton and Lisa Cave

MUTUAL VERSUS PROPRIETARY OWNERSHIP: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY FROM THE UK UNIT TRUST INDUSTRY WITH A COMPANY‐PRODUCT MEASURE pp. 247-280

Yoshikatsu Shinozawa

EVALUATING EU POLICIES ON PUBLIC SERVICES: A CITIZENS' PERSPECTIVE pp. 281-311

Judith Clifton and Daniel Díaz‐Fuentes

PUBLIC SERVICE PERSPECTIVES ON REFORMS OF ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION AND SUPPLY: A MODULAR ANALYSIS pp. 313-356

Ute Dubois and Roxana Saplacan

Volume 81, issue 1, 2010

THE INFLUENCE OF VOLUNTEERS, DONATIONS AND PUBLIC SUBSIDIES ON THE WAGE LEVEL OF NONPROFIT WORKERS: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRIAN MATCHED DATA pp. 1-20

Astrid Haider and Ulrike Schneider

FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR ITALIAN PRODUCERS' COOPERATIVES pp. 21-38

Ornella Maietta and Vania Sena

FRONTIER EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT IN DEPOSIT‐TAKING FINANCIAL MUTUALS: A REVIEW OF TECHNIQUES, APPLICATIONS, AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS pp. 39-75

Andrew Worthington

SUNK COSTS OF CAPITAL AND THE FORM OF ENTERPRISE: INVESTOR‐OWNED FIRMS AND WORKER‐OWNED FIRMS pp. 77-104

Kazuhiko Mikami and Satoru Tanaka

DIFFERENCES IN FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AMONGST SPANISH SMES ACCORDING TO THEIR CAPITAL‐OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE: A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS pp. 105-129

Zuray Melgarejo, Katrin Simon and Francisco J. Arcelus

THE UNPAID LEADERS OF FRENCH VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS pp. 131-166

Lionel Prouteau and Muriel Tabaries

Volume 80, issue 4, 2009

RISK ATTITUDES AND THE DEMAND FOR PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE: THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘CAPTIVE PREFERENCES’ pp. 499-519

Joan Costa‐Font and Jaume García‐Villar

WHEN IS A SERVICE AN ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICE? pp. 521-545

Steven Van de Walle

CONTRAINTES ET CHOIX ORGANISATIONNELS DANS LES DISPOSITIFS DE MONNAIES SOCIALES pp. 547-577

Jerome Blanc

A BROAD PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK BASED ON CITIZENS’ PREFERENCES: THE CASE OF SWEDISH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION pp. 579-603

Magnus Söderberg

BANKING MARKET STRUCTURE, CREATION AND ACTIVITY OF FIRMS: EARLY EVIDENCE FOR COOPERATIVES IN THE ITALIAN CASE pp. 605-640

Francesca Gagliardi

LIMITS TO COMPETITION AND REGULATION IN PRIVATIZED ELECTRICITY MARKETS pp. 641-664

Hulya Dagdeviren

Volume 80, issue 3, 2009

MOVING BEYOND MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM TO A MORE BALANCED ECONOMY pp. 345-360

Joseph Stiglitz

REINVENTING THE WHEEL? AFRICAN COOPERATIVES IN A LIBERALIZED ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT pp. 361-392

Fredrick O. Wanyama, Patrick Develtere and Ignace Pollet

JOINT BIDDING, GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC PROCUREMENT COSTS:A CASE OF ROAD PROJECTS pp. 393-429

Antonio Estache and Atsushi Iimi

VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ECONOMIES IN THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH pp. 431-450

Massimiliano Piacenza and Davide Vannoni

RETAIL PRICE REGULATION AND THE OPTION TO DELAY pp. 451-468

Fernando Camacho and Flavio Menezes

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF NON‐PROFIT HOSPITALS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE pp. 469-497

Keldon Bauer

Volume 80, issue 2, 2009

TRUST, INEQUALITY AND THE SIZE OF THE CO‐OPERATIVE SECTOR: CROSS‐COUNTRY EVIDENCE pp. 165-195

Derek Jones and Panu Kalmi

TOWARDS A PARADIGM OF DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION: CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND CO‐PRODUCTION OF PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES IN SWEDEN pp. 197-224

Victor Pestoff

LA LONGUE MARCHE VERS UN COMPTE SATELLITE DE L’ECONOMIE SOCIALE: UN BILAN A PARTIR DE L’EXPERIENCE FRANÇAISE pp. 225-246

Edith Archambault and Philippe Kaminski

THE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISES: EVIDENCE FROM A UK EMPIRICAL STUDY pp. 247-273

Roger Spear, Chris Cornforth and Mike Aiken

SOCIAL ECONOMY IN THE CO‐CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC POLICY pp. 275-313

Yves Vaillancourt

LOYAUTÉ ET PERFORMANCE: UNE ANALYSE EMPIRIQUE DANS UN RÉSEAU COOPÉRATIF BANCAIRE pp. 315-344

Daniel Côté and Adil Belhouari

Volume 80, issue 1, 2009

KARL POLANYI ET LA PÉDAGOGIE DE L'INCOHÉRENCE pp. 1-35

Bernard Gazier and Marguerite Mendell

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF CHILD CARE DEMAND IN SWITZERLAND pp. 37-66

Silvia Banfi, Mehdi Farsi and Massimo Filippini

THE RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF CHARTER SCHOOLS pp. 67-87

Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy J. Hayes and Lori Taylor

LA DYNAMIQUE DES RÉFORMES D'INDUSTRIES DE RÉSEAUX:LE CAS DE L'ÉLECTRICITÉ ET DES CHEMINS DE FER EN GRANDE‐BRETAGNE pp. 89-117

Carine Staropoli and Anne Yvrande‐Billon

HUMAN NATURE, COMMUNICATION AND TRUST pp. 119-131

Louis Putterman

ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR pp. 133-161

Pierre Pestieau

Volume 79, issue 3‐4, 2008

Les Annales ont 100 ans! pp. 369-370

Bernard Thiry

The Annals are 100 years old! pp. 371-372

Bernard Thiry

DES ANNALES DE LA REGIE DIRECTE AUX ANNALES DE L'ECONOMIE PUBLIQUE, SOCIALE ET COOPERATIVE: UN SIECLE DE METAMORPHOSES D'UNE REVUE ECONOMIQUE INTERNATIONALE pp. 373-416

Eric Geerkens*

FROM THE ANNALES DE LA RÉGIE DIRECTE TO THE ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND CO‐OPERATIVE ECONOMICS: 100 YEARS OF TRANSFORMATIONS IN AN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC JOURNAL pp. 417-460

Eric Geerkens

LIBERALIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES: ORIGINS OF THE DEBATE, CURRENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE pp. 461-485

Giuseppe Bognetti and Gabriel Obermann

LA DEREGULATION DES INDUSTRIES DE RESEAUX COMME POLITIQUE INSTITUTIONNELLE DE CREATION DE MARCHES ET DE MECANISMES DE GOUVERNANCE pp. 487-525

Jean-Michel Glachant

PUBLIC ENTERPRISES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS IN INSTITUTIONAL COMPETITION AND UNDERGOING STRUCTURAL CHANGE New challenges to the theory of public economics and public services in Germany pp. 527-547

Helmut Cox

THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL ECONOMY: CONCEPT AND DIMENSIONS OF THE THIRD SECTOR pp. 549-577

José Luis Monzon and Rafael Chaves-Avila

REDUCING THE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF IDENTITY: A POTENTIAL ROLE FOR THE NONPROFIT SECTOR IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION pp. 579-600

Avner Ben‐Ner and Claire A. Hill

THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: THE CASE OF HUNGARY pp. 601-623

Susan Rose‐Ackerman

THE CO‐OPERATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE SOCIAL ECONOMY TRADITIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE MINGLING OF BROAD VISIONS pp. 625-642

Ian MacPherson

LE SECTEUR PUBLIC ET L'ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE DANS LES ANNALES (1975–2007): VERS UN NOUVEAU PARADIGME pp. 643-678

Fabienne Fecher and Benoît Lévesque

THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE SOCIAL ECONOMY IN THE ANNALS (1975–2007): TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM pp. 679-727

Fabienne Fecher and Benoît Lévesque

Volume 79, issue 2, 2008

SERVICE QUALITY IN REGULATED NETWORK INDUSTRIES pp. 197-225

Catherine WADDAMS Price, Bitten Brigham and Lin Fitzgerald

INCENTIVE REGULATION AND THE ROLE OF CONVEXITY IN BENCHMARKING ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION: ECONOMISTS VERSUS ENGINEERS pp. 227-248

Emili Grifell‐tatjé and Kristiaan Kerstens

MORAL HAZARD AND LABOUR‐MANAGED FIRMS IN ITALY AFTER THE LAW N. 142/2001 pp. 249-267

Francesco Reito

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR A SAMPLE OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA pp. 269-299

Alain de Crombrugghe, Michel Tenikue and Julie Sureda

ETUDE DES FACTEURS CONTINGENTS DU TAUX DE REMBOURSEMENT AU SEIN D'UNE INSTITUTION DE, MICROFINANCE: LE CAS DU TOGO pp. 301-322

Marek Hudon and Tchakodo Ouro‐koura

DIFFÉRENCE DE SATISFACTION DANS L'EMPLOI ENTRE SECTEURS À BUT LUCRATIF ET À BUT NON LUCRATIF: LE RÔLE JOUÉ PAR LES CARACTÉRISTIQUES D'EMPLOI pp. 323-368

Joseph Lanfranchi and Mathieu Narcy

Volume 79, issue 1, 2008

Chers Lectrices et Lecteurs pp. 1-1

F. Fecher and B. Thiry

Dear Readers pp. 2-2

F. Fecher and B. Thiry

EVALUATING GAINS FROM MERGERS IN A NON‐PARAMETRIC PUBLIC GOOD MODEL OF POLICE SERVICES pp. 3-33

Richard Simper and Thomas Weyman‐jones

THE ECONOMICS OF THE NON‐DISTRIBUTION CONSTRAINT: A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL pp. 35-52

Vladislav Valentinov

L'APPROCHE PAR LES CAPACITÉS D'AMARTYA SEN: QUELS ENSEIGNEMENTS POUR L'ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE? pp. 53-78

Cyrille Ferraton

EFFICIENCY AND SURVIVAL: THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COFFEE AGREEMENT'S DEMISE ON COSTA RICA'S COOPERATIVE COFFEE PROCESSING, 1988–2005 pp. 79-106

Robert Mosheim

THE USEFULNESS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN THE MEASUREMENT OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES pp. 107-131

Isidoro Guzmán and Narciso Arcas

PRIVATIZATION AND LIBERALIZATION: COSTS AND BENEFITS IN THE PRESENCE OF WAGE‐BARGAINING pp. 133-160

Sonja Grönblom and Johan Willner

TAUX D'INTERET EFFECTIF, VIABILITE FINANCIERE ET FINANCEMENT DES PETITS OPERATEURS ECONOMIQUES PAR LES INSTITUTIONS DE MICROFINANCE AU BENIN pp. 161-195

Denis H. Acclassato