Public Administration and Private Enterprise: Co-operation, Competition and Regulation

Private Politics and Public Regulation

Private politics are often introduced by market participants in the absence of public regulation. But when is private politics enough, effi cient, or better than administratively costly public regulation? We present a novel framework in which we can study the interaction between regulation, self-regulation by the firm, and boycotts by the activists in a dynamic game. Our main results are the fo...

Public-private partnerships and insurance regulation.

Power Reform, Private Investment and Regional Co-operation

Modern infrastructure, particularly electricity, is critical to economic development. Deficits cause shortages that constrain total output, magnifying the return to their elimination. South Asia, faced with inefficient and bankrupt state-owned vertically integrated electricity supply industries, was under strong pressure to reform. An imperfect diagnosis encouraged private investment in generat...

Implementation constraints in social enterprise and community Public Private Partnerships

Public Private Partnership (PPP) employs private sector expertise and skill to provide public goods and services. We examine three community PPP projects to identify critical success factors of the project outcomes. Two conclusions particularly stand out: first, the project must be aligned with both the public and private parties' business and service plans, and second, appropriate management s...

Negotiation via co-operation and competition in ALIAS

This paper presents ALIAS, an agent architecture based on intelligent logic agents, where the main form of agent reasoning is abduction. The system is particularly suited for solving problems where knowledge is incomplete, where agents may need to make reasonable hypotheses about the problem domain and other agents. ALIAS agents are pro-active, exhibiting a goal-directed behavior, and autonomou...