Contracting Out Public Transit Services: An Incentive Performance-Based Approach

An Overview of Incentive Contracting

Agents me.y contract some of their tasks to other agents even when they do not share a common goal. An agent may try to contract some of the tasks that it cannot perform by itself, or that may be performed more efficiently by other agents. One self-motivated agent may convince another self-motivated agent to help it with its task, by promises of rewards, even if the agents are not assumed to be...

“Political connections, corruption, and privatization of public services: Evidence from contracting out water services in Spain”

Political corruption is a type of market failure. One area of public policy where corruption is relatively common is the contracting out of public services. Private firms can improve their chances of obtaining contracts by bribing politicians or public servants and funding political parties. In the same vein, firms can gain access to policy makers by hiring influential former politicians –a pra...

Contracting Out Non-State Providers to Provide Primary Healthcare Services in Tanzania: Perceptions of Stakeholders

Background In the attempt to move towards universal health coverage (UHC), many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are actively seeking to contract-out non-state providers (NSPs) to deliver health services to a specified population. Research on contracting-out has focused more on the impact of contracting-out than on the actual processes underlying the intervention and contextual factors ...

Contracting - out employment services : temporary agency work in Germany

Contracting-out health care services: a conceptual framework.

Contracting-out has become increasingly prominent in the health-care sector. It has been used in activities ranging from 'internal market' arrangements in which providers compete for funding from government payers to purchases of medical and non-medical inputs by service providers. While contracting-out arrangements for non-medical services have been widely adopted with apparent success, the co...