Fredrik Andersson
Professor, Prefekt Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
Författare
Summary, in English
We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The empirical studies point at rather favourable outsourcing outcomes, in terms of costs and quality, for services without severe contracting problems. The picture is more mixed for services with tougher contracting problems, with the weight of the evidence in favour of public provision. This difference between services is largely in line with the property-rights framework and theories of incomplete contracts.
Avdelning/ar
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2019-12
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
349-372
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
CESifo Economic Studies
Volym
65
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Public Administration Studies
Nyckelord
- Contracts
- Public services
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1610-241X