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Contracting out government services: Lessons from the private sector

J Prager - Public Administration Review, 1994 - JSTOR
What are the costs of the contracting out process? While supporting contracting as a viable
tool for public sector managers, Jonas Prager argues the public sector often pays
inadequate attention to the costs of managing contracting out and monitoring contractor ...
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Contracting-out: Theory and policy

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J Prager - NYUJ Int'l L. & Pol., 1992 - HeinOnline
Abstract The apparent success of contracting-out government services to private sector firms
in the United States and in Great Britain has fostered a groundswell of support for this
privatization option in both developed and developing countries. This article examines the ...
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Is privatization a panacea for LDCs? Market failure versus public sector failure

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J Prager - The Journal of Developing Areas, 1992 - JSTOR
The Third World's recent tryst with privatization stems from two sources: the internal
conviction that public sector production has not worked out as anticipated; and in those
countries relying on IMF/World Bank structural adjustment loans, the externally imposed ...
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Privatizing local government operations: Lessons from federal contracting out methodology

J Prager… - Public Productivity & Management Review, 1996 - JSTOR
Circular A-76 sets out an extensive, detailed, and pragmatic methodology for federal
government contracting. This article reviews, critiques, and suggests how A-76 can be
applied to contracting out at the municipal level. It then presents two case studies that ...
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Criteria for contracting-out decisions when contractors can deceive

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J Paroush… - Atlantic Economic Journal, 1999 - Springer
Abstract This paper presents a decision rule for contracting out that explicitly takes into
account the possibility of contractor deception. In the model presented here, the contracting
agency opts to contract out only when the production savings exceeds the sum of its ...
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Contracting out as a vehicle for privatization: Half speed ahead

J Prager - Journal of international Affairs, 1997 - questia.com
Privatization in its broadest sense entails a simultaneous retrenchment of the government
sector and an expansion of the private sector. Although privatization is often thought of as
synonymous with government sales of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), divestiture is far ...
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Contract city redux: Weston, Florida, as the ultimate new public management model city

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J Prager - Public Administration Review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
* Correspondence: Jonas Prager is an associate professor of economics at New York
University. His research specialties include privatization, especially the economics of
contracting out, and financial regulation. E-mail: jonas. prager@ nyu. edu
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[CITATION] Fundamentals of money, banking, and financial institutions

J Prager - 1987 - getcited.org
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Contracting out government services: lessons from the private sector

J Prager - Economic Research Report, New York University, 1993 - econ.as.nyu.edu
Abstract Diverse motivationsinduce private sector decision-makers to contract out rather
than to produce in-house: economies and diseconomies of scale and scope, the competitive
environment, and organizational diseconomies. But private sector firms also attend to the ...
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[CITATION] Banking privatization: How compelling is the case

J Prager - How does privatization work, 1997
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[CITATION] Monetary economics: controversies in theory and policy

J Prager - 1971 - Random House (NY)
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[CITATION] Two Cheers for the Underground Economy

J Prager… - 1983 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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On the Differential Effects of Tight Money: A Comment

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J Prager… - The Journal of Finance, 1971 - JSTOR
THE RECENT PERIOD of tight money has brought to the fore once again the issue of the
uneven incidence of restrictive monetary policy. The construction industry, especially the
residential end of it, has borne the major focus of public attention as well as apparently the ...
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[BOOK] Balancing the Scales: Halakha, the Firm, and Information Asymmetries

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J Prager… - 1996 - econ.as.nyu.edu
Abstract Sellers are typically better informed about product quality and sales practices than
are purchasers, and might be tempted to exploit their superior knowledge to deceive buyers.
Firms themselves, buyers, and third-parties attempt to level the playing field with a variety ...
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[CITATION] Banking Privatization in Israel, 1983-1994: A Case Study in Political Economy

J Prager - QUARTERLY REVIEW-BANCA …, 1996 - BANCA NAZIONALE DEL LAVORO
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Central bank policy-making in Israel: The Horowitz governorship (1954-1971)'

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J Prager - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1975 - Cambridge Univ Press
The functions of a modern central bank are manifold, but fall into a few general categories—
technical, advisory, and control. Technical activities do not demand a separate central
banking institution; they could be performed equally well by alternative arrangements. ...
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[CITATION] Commercial Banking and Investment Banking: Are the US and Israel Reversing Attitudes?

J Prager - 1988 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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[CITATION] Just Sit Tight and Do Nothing: A Perspective on the Current Impasse in Federal Banking Legislation

J Prager… - 1986 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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[CITATION] Decision-making in British Monetary Policy, with Implications for the United States

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J Prager - The Journal of Finance, 1965 - JSTOR
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[BOOK] The Suboptimality of Incentive Contracts in a Contracting Model

J Paroush, J Prager… - 1994 - econ.as.nyu.edu
ABSTRACT We take issue with the fundamental privatization theorem of Sappington and
Stiglitz, which asserts that a government contracting-out auction can be--and by implication,
should be--designed to maximize output while simultaneously extracting all contractor rent ...
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[CITATION] Regulatory Reform in Banking: The Short-run and the Long

J Prager… - 1982 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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[BOOK] Market Failure and Public Sector Failure: Is Privatization a Panacea?

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J Prager, New York University. Dept. of Economics… - 1990 - econ.as.nyu.edu
ABSTRACT Although market failure is the primary economic justification for government
intervention in the economy, the efficiency enhancement thought to stem from government
involvement—especially in the form of public ownership—is not necessarily realized in ...
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Reforming the discount mechanism: A modest proposal

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J Prager - Atlantic Economic Journal, 1976 - Springer
The effectiveness of monetary policy in gen- eral and of the various policy instruments in par-
ticular has long been questioned. Internal criti- cism and the quest for self-improvement have
characterized many central bank administra- tions. The process has been aided and ...
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[CITATION] The Future of Banking in New York

J Prager… - 1983 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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[CITATION] A Note on Tax Shifting, Slope, and Elasticity

J Prager - Eastern Economic Journal, 1980 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. A Note on Tax Shifting, Slope, and Elasticity. Jonas
Prager Additional contact information Jonas Prager: New York University. Eastern
Economic Journal, 1980, vol. 6, issue 3-4, pages 209-210. ...
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Wage indexation and the Israeli labor market: the institutional imperative

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J Prager - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1986 - Cambridge Univ Press
Israel is a nation replete with contradictions; its economics, politics, and sociology often defy
understanding. This Jewish state, located on the periphery of the Moslem world, has few
natural resources of its own, while its neighbors to the south and east enjoy the benefits of ...
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[CITATION] Vignettes in a Confused Economy: The Soviet Union in Transition

J Prager… - 1991 - New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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[CITATION] Tough Transition: Hungary's Path to a Freer Economy

J Prager… - 1989 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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[PDF] СV STARR CENTER FOR APPLIED ECONOMICS

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J Prager - 1994 - econ.nyu.edu
ABSTRACT Although Israel's major banks were bailed out by massive government loans in
late 1983, they passed into the government's hands only a decade later. Even then,
ownership but not control was transfered. Selling the public's stake, which began in late ...
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[CITATION] Study Guide for Use with Applied Microeconomics: An Intermediate Text, Jonas Prager

E Glustoff… - 1993 - Irwin
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OMB's Circular A-76 and its Implications for Municipal Contracting

S Desai… - Working Papers, 1995 - ideas.repec.org
Circular A-76 sets out an extensive, detailed, and pragmatic methodology for federal
government contracting. This paper reviews, critiques, and suggests how A-76 can be
applied to contracting out at the municipal level. It then presents two case studies that ...
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Incentive Contracts in a Contracting-Out Model

J Paroush… - 1998 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We expand upon Sappington and Stiglitz's" first fundamental privatization
theorem," which suggests the conditions for an efficient incentive structure, by explicitly
introducing contractor deception and contractee monitoring costs. We demonstrate that ...

[PDF] СV STARR CENTER FOR APPLIED ECONOMICS

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J Paroush… - 1993 - econ.as.nyu.edu
ABSTRACT We take issue with the fundamental privatization theorem of Sappington and
Stiglitz, which asserts that a government contracting-out auction can be—and by implication,
should be~ designed to maximize output while simultaneously extracting all contractor ...
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[CITATION] Aspecial thanks to the following individuals who reviewed for Volume 8 of Public Works Management & Policy

M Beals, R Behn, B Bowen, B Bunch… - Public Works …, 2004 - pwm.sagepub.com
Aspecial thanks to the following individuals who reviewed for Volume 8 of Public Works ... PUBLIC
WORKS MANAGEMENT & POLICY, Vol. 8 No. 4, April 2004 278 © 2004 Sage Publications ...
Mark Beals Robert Behn Brent Bowen Beverly Bunch Brenda Bushhouse Paul Carlson ...

[CITATION] United States Banking Regulation and Deregulation: A Survey with a Theme

J Prager… - 1985 - New York University. Department of …
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[CITATION] Rethinking Securities Regulation

J Prager… - 1989 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …

[CITATION] Challenge and Response: US Banking in Turmoil

J Prager… - 1982 - … , New York University, Faculty of Arts …
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[CITATION] Power, Influence and the Bank of Israel: Theory and Reality

J Prager… - 1972 - Bar-Ilan University, Research …
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[CITATION] POLITICAL ACTIVITY

R Zeidner… - Personnel literature, 1994 - The Library

[CITATION] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NOTE

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BBB Okun, MFJ Prager, THD Salvatore… - The American economist, 1977
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[PDF] Regulatory Reform in Banking, or Taking the Bull By the Horns

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J Prager - Working Papers, 1978 - econ.as.nyu.edu
Deregulation has become a major theme of the present Administration in Washington. The
stultifying impact of government intervention in economic life and the morass of government
bureaucracies is contrasted to the liberating, progressive influence of the private ...
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[CITATION] Munificent Obsession: The Reluctant Nationalization and the Protracted Privatization of the Israeli Banking System

J Prager - Working Papers, 1994 - econpapers.repec.org
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Privatization of the Israeli Banking System. Jonas Prager. ...
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