The limits of production efficiency analysis: New Institutional economics and PSP contracts

Greener Management International

Volumn , Issue 42, 2003, Pages 21-34

  Rothenberger, Dieter ^a   Truffer, Bernhard ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Concession contracts; costs; Institutional analysis; Institutional economics; Privatisation; Regulation; Sanitation; Transaction; Water supply

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; SANITATION; TRANSACTION COST; WATER SUPPLY; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 2142653561     PISSN: 09669671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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