The scope of public organisations with productive functions: insights from the inefficiency of Italian local public transport
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State-owned enterprises; efficiency; Italy; local public transport; competition;All these keywords.
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- H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
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