Incomplete contracts and public ownership: Remarks, and an application to public-private partnerships

Economic Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 486, 2003, Pages

  Hart, Oliver ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTION; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SERVICE PROVISION;

EID: 0037353948     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00119     Document Type: Article

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