Ownership versus environment: Disentangling the sources of public-sector inefficiency

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 135-147

  Bartel, Ann P ^a,b   Harrison, Ann E ^b,c  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b NBER ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 15944371007     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0034653053327595     Document Type: Article

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