Gabriel Obermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 6037954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Obermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Obermann |
| SIGNATURE | OBERMANN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Serving the General Interest With Public Enterprises – New Forms of Governance and Trends in Ownership
International audience
Local Public Services in European Countries
The present article is meant as an introduction to the three contributions on local public transport, water services and waste management resulting from a research of CIRIEC International Scientific Commission on ‘Public Services/Public Enterprises’, launched in 2008. The main purpose of the research was to produce a cross section description of essential and widely used local public services in different countries and to investigate their evolut…
Liberalization and Privatization of Public Utilities
Public utilities, public enterprises, privatizations, liberalizations and related topics have been the object of far reaching and intense debate among economists, politicians and practitioners for more than a century. Ideas have frequently changed, and practical solutions chosen to manage public utilities have also undergone significant changes over time. Presently we are witnessing a renewed debate on the relative opportunity of public and priva…
The Role of the State as Guarantor of Public Services
The aim of the paper is to take a closer look from a transaction cost perspective at empirical findings on the changing role of the State as a guarantor of public services. In recent years, a number of economic and legal research efforts have been devoted to analyse under which conditions and for which public services specific organizational forms and institutional arrangements would be adequate. The empirical evidence referred to for the public …
Public Procurement at the Local Level in Austria
This paper looks at possible problems concerning the economic effects of the introduction of an compulsory competitive tendering for general economic interest services at the local level. It examines the framework in Austria and some fundamental problems of competitive tendering. An obligation binding local authorities to put general economic interest services up for competitive tender, as currently intended by the European Commission (i.e. servi…
Sector‐specific regulation from a public choice perspective with regard to the supply of services of public interest
Structural changes and preservation of the general interest in Austria
Capital intensity and the federal sector
Liberalization and Privatization of Public Utilities
Public utilities, public enterprises, privatizations, liberalizations and related topics have been the object of far reaching and intense debate among economists, politicians and practitioners for more than a century. Ideas have frequently changed, and practical solutions chosen to manage public utilities have also undergone significant changes over time. Presently we are witnessing a renewed debate on the relative opportunity of public and priva…
The Role of the State as Guarantor of Public Services
The aim of the paper is to take a closer look from a transaction cost perspective at empirical findings on the changing role of the State as a guarantor of public services. In recent years, a number of economic and legal research efforts have been devoted to analyse under which conditions and for which public services specific organizational forms and institutional arrangements would be adequate. The empirical evidence referred to for the public …
Local Public Services in European Countries
The present article is meant as an introduction to the three contributions on local public transport, water services and waste management resulting from a research of CIRIEC International Scientific Commission on ‘Public Services/Public Enterprises’, launched in 2008. The main purpose of the research was to produce a cross section description of essential and widely used local public services in different countries and to investigate their evolut…
Sector‐specific regulation from a public choice perspective with regard to the supply of services of public interest
Capital intensity and the federal sector
Structural changes and preservation of the general interest in Austria
Sector‐specific regulation from a public choice perspective with regard to the supply of services of public interest
Public Procurement at the Local Level in Austria
This paper looks at possible problems concerning the economic effects of the introduction of an compulsory competitive tendering for general economic interest services at the local level. It examines the framework in Austria and some fundamental problems of competitive tendering. An obligation binding local authorities to put general economic interest services up for competitive tender, as currently intended by the European Commission (i.e. servi…
The Role of the State as Guarantor of Public Services
The aim of the paper is to take a closer look from a transaction cost perspective at empirical findings on the changing role of the State as a guarantor of public services. In recent years, a number of economic and legal research efforts have been devoted to analyse under which conditions and for which public services specific organizational forms and institutional arrangements would be adequate. The empirical evidence referred to for the public …
Liberalization and Privatization of Public Utilities
Public utilities, public enterprises, privatizations, liberalizations and related topics have been the object of far reaching and intense debate among economists, politicians and practitioners for more than a century. Ideas have frequently changed, and practical solutions chosen to manage public utilities have also undergone significant changes over time. Presently we are witnessing a renewed debate on the relative opportunity of public and priva…
Local Public Services in European Countries
The present article is meant as an introduction to the three contributions on local public transport, water services and waste management resulting from a research of CIRIEC International Scientific Commission on ‘Public Services/Public Enterprises’, launched in 2008. The main purpose of the research was to produce a cross section description of essential and widely used local public services in different countries and to investigate their evolut…
Serving the General Interest With Public Enterprises – New Forms of Governance and Trends in Ownership
International audience
Economics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Finance (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (4 works)