Privatization in the United States / Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopez-de-Silane, Florencio.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Shleifer, Andrei.

Vishny, Robert W.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5113.

NBER working paper series no. w5113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1995.

Summary:

In the United States, the two principal modes of producing local government services are inhouse provision by government employees and contracting out to private suppliers, also known as privatization. We examine empirically how United States counties choose their mode of providing services. The evidence indicates that state clean- government laws and state laws restricting county spending encourage privatization, whereas strong public unions discourage it. The evidence is inconsistent with the view that efficiency considerations alone govern the provision mode, and points to the important roles played by political patronage and taxpayer resistance to government spending in the privatization decision.

Notes:

Print version record

May 1995.