Property rights and transaction costs : The role of ownership and organization in German public service provision

Arbeitspapier

This paper provides evidence that ownership and organization matters for the efficiency of provision of public services. In particular, we find that pure private ownership is more efficient than pure public ownership, followed by mixed ownership. The delegation of management in different legal forms also has an impact, highlighting the importance of the design of the government-operator relation. We apply a structural approach of production function estimation ensuring precise determination of total factor productivity for a panel of German refuse collection firms in the time period between 2000-2012. We project total factor productivity estimates (TFP) on ownership and organization. Our results are in line with the trade-offs implied by the property rights literature and provide important policy implications regarding the organization of public service provision.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Genossenschaftswesen der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster ; No. 173

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Industrial Organization: General ; Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out ; Regulation and Industrial Policy: General ; Utilities: General
• Thema: incentive regulation ; productive efficiency ; refuse collection ; public utility

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Friese, Maria ; Heimeshoff, Ulrich ; Klein, Gordon J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Genossenschaftswesen (IfG)
• (wo): Münster
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148933
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ