Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53203 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 23.2009
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We study the competition to acquire the exclusive right to operate an infrastructure service, by comparing two different specifications for the financial proposals - lowest price to consumers vs highest concession fee, and two alternative contractual arrangements: a contract which imposes the obligation to immediately undertake the investment required to operate the concessioned service and a contract which simply assigns to the winning bidder the right to supply the market at a date of her choosing. By comparing the returns of these alternative award criteria and concessioning conditions, we show that concessioning without imposing rollout time limits may or may not provide a higher expected social value, depending on the bidding rule used to allocate the contract. In turn, the relative advantages of each award criterion are affected by the concessioning conditions.
Subjects: 
Concessions
Auctions
Award criteria
Service Rollout Time limits
JEL: 
L51
D44
D92
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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