Ce rapport, qui résulte de la coopération du centre d'Analyse Théorique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM) et du Laboratoire d'Economie des Transports (LET), analyse sous l'angle de la théorie des coûts de transaction les modes de gestion alternatifs des services de transports publics...

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure and contractual choices on technical efficiency in the French urban public transport sector. The central proposition, which relies on classical contract theory arguments, is that ownership regime and contractual practices are key...

The central message conveyed in this chapter is that there is a whole class of economic organizations that contribute substantially to what Coase (1992) called "the institutional structure of production". These arrangements fall neither under pure market relationships nor within 'firm...

The extraordinary influence of The Problem of Social Cost" is now well acknowledged. Beyond the official recognition coming with the award of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences as well as the myriad citations, what may matter most, as emphasized by Mary Shirley (2013), is that...

Public-Private Partnership has been high on the agenda of public decision makers since the 1990's. Primarily a contractual approach to the delivery of infrastructures, goods and services traditionally provided by the public sector or by private operators submitted to tight regulation, PPP is...

This chapter aims to provide some answers using both theoretical considerations as well as practical illustrations at the sub sectoral levels of urban water supply and irrigation as well as at the water sector as a whole. It examines different possibilities to deal with governance issues...

Comment sont répartis les surcoûts qui résultent de la matérialisation de risques dans le cadre de relations contractuelles ? Nous proposons une réponse qui combine théorie des coûts de transaction et approche en termes d'équité, de manière à expliquer pourquoi des stratégies...

This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their reform. Since infrastructures are characterized by strong technical complementarities, we explore the resulting 'critical technical functions' that need to be performed in order...

This paper focuses on how to deal with environmental problems, through the lenses of the New Institutional Economics. The emphasis is on the intertwined role of organizational solutions and their institutional settings. This is not to say that technological solutions to environmental problems...

La comparaison de solutions contractuelles alternatives est obligatoire, en France, pour justifier le recours au contrat de partenariat. La question se pose alors des fondements d'une telle comparaison. La théorie des coûts de transaction fournit des outils particulièrement éclairants pour...