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Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities / Jonathan Levin, Steven Tadelis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levin, Jonathan.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13350.
- NBER working paper series no. w13350
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Contracting for Government Services
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.
- Summary:
- Local governments can provide services with their own employees or by contracting with private or public sector providers. We develop a model of this "make-or-buy" choice that highlights the trade-off between productive efficiency and the costs of contract administration. We construct a dataset of service provision choices by U.S. cities and identify a range of service and city characteristics as significant determinants of contracting decisions. Our analysis suggests an important role for economic efficiency concerns, as well as politics, in contracting for government services.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2007.
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