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Public-private partnership and schooling outcomes across countries
Woessmann, Ludger - 2006
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...
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Risk selection in natural disaster insurance : the case of France
Jametti, Mario; von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas - 2006
It is widely recognized that ?market failure? prevents efficient risk sharing in natural disaster insurance. As a consequence, many countries adopted institutional frameworks presenting public sector participation, often praised as public-private partnerships. We define risk selection as a...
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Asymmetric Yardstick Competition: Traditional Procurement versus Public-Private Partnerships
Di Liddo, Giuseppe; Vinella, Annalisa - 2019
identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018140
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Under/Over-Investment and Early Renegotiation in Public-Private Partnerships
Danau, Daniel - 2019
We consider a public-private partnership in an infrastructure project, which requires specialised expertise during the … construction stage for the infrastructure to operationalise. This entails that, after an investment is made to begin building the … infrastructure, its construction is completed at a cost, which increases with the investment at an increasing rate, and is higher if …
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Asymmetric Yardstick Competition : Traditional Procurement Versus Public-Private Partnerships
Liddo, Giuseppe Di - 2019
identical infrastructure project choosing be- tween two contractual arrangements with different financing profiles, namely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892139
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The Impact of the Shale Oil Revolution on U.S. Oil and Gasoline Prices
Kilian, Lutz - 2016
This article examines how the shale oil revolution has shaped the evolution of U.S. crude oil and gasoline prices. It puts the evolution of shale oil production into historical perspective, highlights uncertainties about future shale oil production, and cautions against the view that the U.S....
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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2013
This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...
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How productive is public capital?: a meta-analysis
Bom, Pedro R. D.; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2008
The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a full' Generalized Least...
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Toward a sustainable transport development in Asia and the Pacific
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2011
Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs … region needs to enhance its connectivity through developing transport infrastructure at the national and regional level to … infrastructure will have profound implications on environment and climate change at the national, regional and global levels as well …
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Role of production networks in sustaining and rebalancing Asia's growth
Thorbecke, Willem; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012
facilitated by improving connectivity through increased investment in connecting infrastructure such as transport and … considers how infrastructure investment in large and connecting projects could help to rebalance and sustain growth in the …
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