Archive pour novembre 2009
Miguel AMARAL
Modes d’Organisation et Performances : Le Cas du Transport Public Urbain en Europe Novembre 2009
Lire la suite« Appels d’offres concurrentiels et avantage au sortant, une étude empirique du secteur du transport public urbain en France »
Anne Yvrande-Billon, 2009, Revue d’Economie Industrielle, 2009, Vol. 127, 1-19, sous presse. Abstract: Cet article porte sur les déterminants de la reconduction des contrats de services publics attribués par appels d’offres concurrentiels. Partant de la constatation que ces contrats changent très rarement de mains, on s’interroge sur les raisons de cette stabilité des prestataires de services…
Lire la suite« Intensité concurrentielle et transparence des appels d’offres »
Article paru dans la revue Transport/Environnement/Circulation, Septembre 2009, N°203, 41-43.
Lire la suiteContract Renewal as an Incentive Device – An Application to the French Urban Public Transport Sector
Contract Renewal as an Incentive Device – An Application to the French Urban Public Transport Sector
Axel GAUTIER (HEC-ULg and CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain) & Anne YVRANDE-BILLON (CES, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne)
In the French urban public transport industry, services are often delegated to a private firm by the mean of a fixed-term regulatory contract. This contract specifies the duties of the firm and a financial compensation. When it expires, a new contract is awarded, possibly to a different operator. There are three types of commonly used contracts: cost-plus, gross cost and net cost contracts. In this paper, we analyse the incentives for the operator to reduce its cost. These incentives come from both the profit maximization during the current contract and the perspective of contract renewal. In our model, the amount of cost-reducing effort depends on the contract type and the time remaining till contract expiration. We use a sample of 124 French urban public transport networks covering the period 1995-2002 to test our predictions. Our proxy for the cost reducing effort is technical efficiency. The data largely confirm the importance of contract type on performances and the incentive effect of contract renewal.