Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5078602 | International Journal of Industrial Organization | 2009 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Governments have begun to embrace public-private partnerships (P3s) as vehicles for providing public services. This paper considers the controversial question of when private financing of public projects is optimal. Private development can dominate public financing through more efficient termination decisions for bad projects, resolving soft budget constraint problems. Due to contractual incompleteness and externalities, on the other hand, private developers cannot commit to large debt repayments, and hence can finance only a subset of valuable projects. Public developers, who do not face the same commitment problems, can finance a larger set of projects.
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Authors
Jean-Etienne de Bettignies, Thomas W. Ross,