Contractual design and PPPs for hospitals

Recently the Portuguese Government announced the launching of public-private partnerships (PPPs) to build hospitals with the distinctive feature that infrastructure construction and clinical activities management will be awarded to separate private parties. Also, one of the parties will be in charge...

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Autores: Pita Barros, Pedro, Martínez Giralt, Xavier|||0000-0002-5185-8395
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:174268
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/174268
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s10198-009-0152-7
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Public-private partnerships
Contract design
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Sumario:Recently the Portuguese Government announced the launching of public-private partnerships (PPPs) to build hospitals with the distinctive feature that infrastructure construction and clinical activities management will be awarded to separate private parties. Also, one of the parties will be in charge of providing soft facilities. We explore alternative configurations of contracts and assess whether the equilibrium allocations attain the first-best solution.