Öffentlich-private Partnerschaften oder Public Private Partnerships (PPP) werden seit Mitteder Neunziger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts in allen westeuropäischen Ländern umgesetzt.Dieses Modell der alternativen Leistungserbringung wurde mit erstaunlicherGeschwindigkeit, sektorenübergreifend...

This paper utilises evidence from the first collapse of a private finance initiative in the UK, that of the National Physical Laboratory, to examine the reality of PFIs in contrast to the rhetoric presented by government...

The share of privately managed road infrastructure throughout Western Europe is relatively high; the progress among these countries is unequally developed. While private concessionaires have been established in England, France, Spain, Finland, France, Italy and Portugal since the late 1950s,...

PRIVATISATION AND THE USE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS(PPP) MODELS IN THE PROVISION OF ROAD AND HIGHWAYINFRASTRUCTURE HAS CONTINUOUSLY GAINED IN IMPORTANCEWORLDWIDE AND IN PARTICULAR IN EUROPE DURING THE LASTYEARS. TRADITIONALLY CONSIDERED AS A TYPICAL PUBLIC DOMAIN,MORE AND MORE OF THE TASKS...

The working report looks at the actual situation of the German water market, the only infrastructuremarket the EU has not encouraged to deregulate until now. Especially importantfactors are the environmental relevance of the water market and the importance of water as afood. At the moment,...

Das Verhältnis zwischen Staat und Privaten weist zwei elementare Aspekte auf. Zum einen organisiert der Staat in seiner Funktion als Rechtsstaat einen verlässlichen Ord-nungsrahmen, indem er die Freiheitsräume der Individuen und ihre Grenzen definiert. Zum anderen existiert die ökonomische...