The organization of public registries: a comparative analysis

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• dc.contributor.author Arruñada, Benito
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-05T09:19:33Z
• dc.date.available 2024-02-05T09:19:33Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract This work analyzes the main tradeoffs in the organization of public registries, comparing five forms of organization: (1) the bureaucracies or “discretionary expense centers” used to provide privately valuable services in the welfare state; (2) the internal markets introduced to reform them, and the hybrid solutions that have been used by the liberal state since the 19th century to provide such privately valuable services, including (3) revenue centers based on user fees; (4) franchised systems in which professional civil servants are paid from the profit of an office; and (5) the contemporary variant in which the Government contracts out the provision of the whole service to a private firm. This comparison suggests that hybrid forms allow market forces to play a more effective role in organizing public registries because they are limited to a few variables, which makes stronger incentives possible while, at the same time, reducing the need for extensive planning and supervisory staff.
• dc.description.sponsorship Pompeu Fabra University and BSE. E-mail: benito.arrunada@upf.edu. This work has greatly benefited from exchanges with Jürgen Backhaus, José Manuel Freire, Fernando Méndez, Stephen Hansen, Cándido PazAres, Yannick Perez, Carlos Rodríguez Braun, Jérôme Sgard, Rod Thomas, Barry Weingast and participants at the EIU Workshop on “Legal Order, The State and Economic Development,” the CUNEF Workshop on “The Economics of Institutions and Organizations,” and the IPRA-CINDER 21st International Conference, as well as support from the Spanish Government through grant ECO2017-85763-R and the Severo Ochoa Program for Centers of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2015-0563). Usual disclaimers apply.
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• dc.identifier.citation Arruñada B. "The organization of public registries: a comparative analysis". In: Nordtveit E, editor. The changing role of property law: rights, values and concepts. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar; c2023. p. 199-220. DOI: 10.4337/9781839100659.00016
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781839100659.00016
• dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-839-10064-2
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58949
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartof Nordtveit E, editor. The changing role of property law: rights, values and concepts. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar; c2023. p. 199-220
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/ECO2017-85763-R
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/SEV2015-0563
• dc.rights © The editor and contributors severally 2023.
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.subject.keyword Internal markets
• dc.subject.keyword Competition
• dc.subject.keyword Bureaucracy
• dc.subject.keyword Registries
• dc.subject.keyword Welfare
• dc.subject.keyword Incentives
• dc.subject.keyword User fees
• dc.subject.keyword User choice
• dc.subject.keyword Privatization
• dc.title The organization of public registries: a comparative analysis
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