Concession Agreements: From Private Contract to Public Policy

Enforcing Private Policy via Security-by-Contract

This work aims to investigate how the Security-by-Contract (SxC) paradigm, developed for providing security assurances to mobile applications, can be used for guaranteeing the security of communicating systems composed by several, heterogeneous components. These components need to communicate with each other by establishing direct, point to point connections. Direct connections can involve comp...

Public Private Partnership Policy Statement

Contract agreements via logic

We relate two contract models: one based on event structures and game theory, and the other one based on logic. In particular, we show that the notions of agreement and winning strategies in the game-theoretic model are related to that of provability in the logical model.

Public-Private Partnerships and Cooperative Agreements in Municipal Service Delivery

This study uses quantitative and qualitative survey data on the use of public-private partnership in provision and production of public services by municipalities in predominantly rural New Hampshire (USA). Descriptive analysis suggests that town officials are less satisfied with the quality of privatized services, suggesting that privatization involves some tradeoff between costs and quality. ...

Private Labels, Price Rivalry, and Public Policy¤

The article examines how the existence of a retailer owned brand, private label, a¤ects the price setting of a national brand. We ...nd that the potential for a private label introduction may lead to price concessions from the national brand producer, but that actual private label introduction as such may very well lead to higher retail prices on national brands. We argue that this may have imp...