Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation

Learning from experience to improve future infrastructure public-private partnerships is a focal issue for policy makers, financiers, implementers, and private sector stakeholders. An extensive body of case studies and "lessons learned" a...

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Main Authors: Marcelo, Darwin, House, Schuyler, Mandri-Perrott, Cledan, Schwartz, Jordan
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110761494334176932/Do-countries-learn-from-experience-in-infrastructure-PPP-PPP-practice-and-contract-cancellation
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spelling okr-10986-267332021-06-08T14:42:46Z Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation Marcelo, Darwin House, Schuyler Mandri-Perrott, Cledan Schwartz, Jordan PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS PPPs CONTRACT CANCELLATION MIXED-EFFECT PROBIT MODEL LINEAR SPLINE CUBIC SPLINE INFRASTRUCTURE Learning from experience to improve future infrastructure public-private partnerships is a focal issue for policy makers, financiers, implementers, and private sector stakeholders. An extensive body of case studies and "lessons learned" aims to improve the likelihood of success and attempts to avoid future contract failures across sectors and geographies. This paper examines whether countries do, indeed, learn from experience to improve the probability of success of public-private partnerships at the national level. The purview of the paper is not to diagnose learning across all aspects of public-private partnerships globally, but rather to focus on whether experience has an effect on the most extreme cases of public-private partnership contract failure, premature contract cancellation. The analysis utilizes mixed-effects probit regression combined with spline models to test empirically whether general public-private partnership experience has an impact on reducing the chances of contract cancellation for future projects. The results confirm what the market intuitively knows, that is, that public-private partnership experience reduces the likelihood of contract cancellation. But the results also provide a perhaps less intuitive finding: the benefits of learning are typically concentrated in the first few public-private partnership deals. Moreover, the results show that the probability of cancellation varies across sectors and suggests the relative complexity of water public-private partnerships compared with energy and transport projects. An estimated $1.5 billion per year could have been saved with interventions and support to reduce cancellations in less experienced countries (those with fewer than 23 prior public-private partnerships). 2017-05-23T22:21:00Z 2017-05-23T22:21:00Z 2017-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110761494334176932/Do-countries-learn-from-experience-in-infrastructure-PPP-PPP-practice-and-contract-cancellation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26733 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8054 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
PPPs
CONTRACT CANCELLATION
MIXED-EFFECT PROBIT MODEL
LINEAR SPLINE
CUBIC SPLINE
INFRASTRUCTURE
spellingShingle PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
PPPs
CONTRACT CANCELLATION
MIXED-EFFECT PROBIT MODEL
LINEAR SPLINE
CUBIC SPLINE
INFRASTRUCTURE
Marcelo, Darwin
House, Schuyler
Mandri-Perrott, Cledan
Schwartz, Jordan
Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8054
description Learning from experience to improve future infrastructure public-private partnerships is a focal issue for policy makers, financiers, implementers, and private sector stakeholders. An extensive body of case studies and "lessons learned" aims to improve the likelihood of success and attempts to avoid future contract failures across sectors and geographies. This paper examines whether countries do, indeed, learn from experience to improve the probability of success of public-private partnerships at the national level. The purview of the paper is not to diagnose learning across all aspects of public-private partnerships globally, but rather to focus on whether experience has an effect on the most extreme cases of public-private partnership contract failure, premature contract cancellation. The analysis utilizes mixed-effects probit regression combined with spline models to test empirically whether general public-private partnership experience has an impact on reducing the chances of contract cancellation for future projects. The results confirm what the market intuitively knows, that is, that public-private partnership experience reduces the likelihood of contract cancellation. But the results also provide a perhaps less intuitive finding: the benefits of learning are typically concentrated in the first few public-private partnership deals. Moreover, the results show that the probability of cancellation varies across sectors and suggests the relative complexity of water public-private partnerships compared with energy and transport projects. An estimated $1.5 billion per year could have been saved with interventions and support to reduce cancellations in less experienced countries (those with fewer than 23 prior public-private partnerships).
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author Marcelo, Darwin
House, Schuyler
Mandri-Perrott, Cledan
Schwartz, Jordan
author_facet Marcelo, Darwin
House, Schuyler
Mandri-Perrott, Cledan
Schwartz, Jordan
author_sort Marcelo, Darwin
title Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation
title_short Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation
title_full Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation
title_fullStr Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation
title_full_unstemmed Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? : PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation
title_sort do countries learn from experience in infrastructure ppp? : ppp practice and contract cancellation
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110761494334176932/Do-countries-learn-from-experience-in-infrastructure-PPP-PPP-practice-and-contract-cancellation
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