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Testing the Validity of the Brown-Potoski Model in the Czech and Slovak Republics

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  • Jan Pavel
  • Emilia Sičáková-Beblavá

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This paper is based on the new institutional economic approach, which focuses on analysis between services features (asset specificity, outcome measurability) and their eligibility to contract out. This issue, which de facto constitutes one of the subsets of the ""make or buy decision"" issue, is also analysed by the so-called Brown-Potoski model. It analyses the relations between selected features of a demanded service and its suitability or unsuitability for outsourcing, whilst making use of information about transaction costs economy. Using data from 100 Czech municipalities and 100 Slovak municipalities, the viability of the Brown-Potoski model is tested. The results of the research show that a connection was identified between the measurability of the required service and its suitability for external provision, but the relationship between the specificity of investments and the suitability for external provision was not. The reason is probably the previous financial demands of the initial investment, which is, above all in the case of small municipalities, beyond their budgetary means.

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  • Jan Pavel & Emilia Sičáková-Beblavá, 2009. "Testing the Validity of the Brown-Potoski Model in the Czech and Slovak Republics," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2009(4), pages 327-341.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpep:v:2009:y:2009:i:4:id:357:p:327-341
    DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.357
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    Keywords

    Czech Republic; Brown-Potoski model; public services; Slovak Republic; transaction costs;
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    JEL classification:

    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
    • H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures

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