This paper deals with efficient organizational choices for the provision of public services. To better apprehend observed contracts of public-private partnerships (ppps), we depart from the property rights literature to distinguish between ownership, rights to make ex post decisions, and rights...

Three organizational structures of local public services, namely Anglo-Saxon public-private partnership, ?delegation of public services?? as implemented in France, and public management, are analysed in this article through the incomplete contract theory approach. The role of the public...