Putting all one's eggs in one basket: Relational contracts and the management of local public services

Claudine Desrieux, Eshien Chong () and Stephane Saussier ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, vol. 89, issue C, 167-186

Abstract: French municipalities often contract out the provision of local public services to private companies, and regularly choose the same private operator for a range of different services. We develop a model of relational contracts that shows how this strategy may lead to better performance at lower cost for public authorities. We test the implication of our model using an original database of the contractual choices made by 5000 French local public authorities in the years 2001, 2004 and 2008.

Keywords: Bundling; Contract; Public–private partnerships; Local public services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D86 H42 K23 L33 L95 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.03.001

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