CLOSUP Conferences
Privatization: Issues of State and Local Public Infrastructure
Ann Arbor, November 22, 2002
A Research Conference Sponsored by:
The University of Michigan's
Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy
and Office of Tax Policy Research
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Download the associated policy report (pdf).
Schedule
University of Michigan Business School Executive Residence, Ann Arbor, MI| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Introduction and Welcome James Hines, University of Michigan |
| 9:30 | "Privatizing Prisons," Anne Morrison Piehl, Kennedy School, Harvard University |
| 10:00 | Discussant: Julie Cullen, Department of Economics, University of Michigan |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | "Privatizing Highways," Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, Department of Economics, Yale University |
| 11:20 | Discussant: Cliff Winston, Brookings Institution |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:15 | "Contractor and Sector Choice for Municipal Services Production: A Transaction Cost Approach," Richard Feiock and Carl Dasse, Florida State University; James Clingermayer, Murray State University |
| 1:45 | Discussant: Robert Stein, Department of Political Science, Rice University |
| 2:15 | "Privatization and Local Labor Markets," Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Yale School of Management, Yale University |
| 2:45 | Discussant: William Megginson, Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma and Italian Privatization Advisory Committee |
| 3:15 | Break |
| 3:30 | "Fiscal Pressures and Privatization," James R. Hines Jr., Office of Tax Policy Research, University of Michigan Business School |
| 4:00 | Discussant: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| 4:30 | Concluding remarks |
| 5:00 | Hors d'oeuvre reception |
