The renegotiation of contracts in the French urban transport industry. This paper describes the renegotiation of delegated management contracts in the French urban transport. We briefly describe the sector, sketch a theoretical model showing that contract renegotiation explains an increasing...

This paper offers some results on the comparison of the costs and benefits associated to the Public-Private Partnerships and to the traditional mode of public contracting. We conclude by explorng the limits of the model. Classification JEL : H11

Recent reforms all over the world have deeply changed the landscape in which higher education institutions and researchers/teachers evolve. Starting from the premise that research was more significant both in volume and quality in the Anglo-Saxon world, a consensus has emerged to justify the...

This article proposes a perspective on international climate agreements, based on mechanism design. We exhibit a trade-off between incentives and participation. We derive a general condition under which the first-best allocation can be implemented. We then discuss how this condition is affected...