Government outsourcing: Public contracting with private monopoly

Economic Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 540, 2009, Pages 1464-1493

  Auriol, Emmanuelle ^a   Picard, Pierre M ^b,c  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET DEFICIT; CAPITAL FLOW; FIRM SIZE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INVESTMENT; MARKET SYSTEM; MONOPOLY; OUTSOURCING; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EID: 70149083029     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02291.x     Document Type: Article

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