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To bid or not to bid, this is the question: the Italian experience in competitive tendering for local bus services

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  • Boitani, Andrea
  • Cambini, Carlo
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    Competitive tendering is a popular mechanism for the provision of local bus services when a major objective is subsidy savings. Despite uncertainties in the legal framework some competitive tendering was implemented in Italy since 1998. The evidence so far is that participants were limited in number, the incumbents were almost everywhere able to gain the franchise, whilst subsidy savings were in many cases negligible. If some ‘political’ conditions favouring more effective tendering procedures are not fulfilled, other regimes should be considered in order to obtain substantial subsidy savings.

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    Article provided by ISTIEE, Institute for the Study of Transport within the European Economic Integration in its journal European Transport / Trasporti Europei.

    Volume (Year): (2006)
    Issue (Month): 33 ()
    Pages: 41-53

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    Handle: RePEc:sot:journl:y:2006:i:33:p:41-53

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    Keywords: Local bus services; Tendering;

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    1. Paul Klemperer, 2004. "Auctions: Theory and Practice," Economics Papers 2004-W09, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
    2. Paul Klemperer, 2004. "Introduction to Auctions: Theory and Practice," Introductory Chapters, in: Auctions: Theory and Practice Princeton University Press.
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    1. Andrea Boitani & Marcella Nicolini & Carlo Scarpa, 2013. "Do competition and ownership matter? Evidence from local public transport in Europe," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 45(11), pages 1419-1434, April.
    2. Augustin, Katrin & Walter, Matthias, 2010. "Operator changes through competitive tendering: Empirical evidence from German local bus transport," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(1), pages 36-44.
    3. Rafael Lalive & Armin Schmutzler, 2005. "Exploring the Effects of Competition for Railway Markets," Working Papers 0511, University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute, revised Apr 2007.
    4. Francesca Scaturro & Francesca Scaturro, 2009. "Analisi delle implicazioni dell’applicazione dell’emission trading scheme al trasporto aereo," Working Papers 0910, SIET Società Italiana di Economia dei Trasporti e della Logistica.

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