EIB Papers Volume 10. n°1/2005

Innovative financing of infrastructure - the role of public-private partnerships: Infrastructure, economic growth, and the economics of PPPs.

• Preface by Philippe Maystadt, President
• Editors' introduction
• Roads on a downhill? Trends in EU infrastructure investment (Timo Välilä, Tomasz Kozluk and Aaron Mehrotra)
• Public capital and economic growth: a critical survey (Ward Romp and Jakob de Haan)
• Is there a lack of public capital in the European Union? (Christophe Kamps)
• How expensive are cost savings? On the economics of public-private partnerships (Timo Välilä)
• Public-private partnerships: contract design and risk transfer (Mathias Dewatripont and Patrick Legros)

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