Germà Bel

TL;DR: The question of whether private organizations can outperform public ones in public service delivery has been a major topic of interest over the last few decades as discussed by the authors, however, the empirical evidence do not support this claim.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined factors determining airport charges and found that low-cost carriers and airlines with a high market share have a stronger countervailing power than public or regulated airports and the regulation mechanism does not seem to influence substantially the level of airport charges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the factors that explain bundling in single contracts and found evidence that some financial variables play a role in bundling decisions, such as market size and the type of economic sectors involved.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework composed by functional equivalents, that is to say, the common denominator among methodological reporting needs Methodological choices that need reporting include the rationale for the selection of a methodology, delimitation of the study, the research instrument, data processing and ethical clearance Increasing methodological reporting would facilitate dialogues among different methodological communities, and with practitioner readers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically analyzed the existence of a dual market for contracts in local services and showed that the dual market implies the high concentration and dominance of major firms in large municipalities, and local monopolies in the smaller ones.