Stéphane Saussier

Professeur d'Economie et de Management Public à l'Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, je dirige, depuis mai 2009, la Chaire de recherche sur l'Economie des Partenariats Public-Privé.  

Par ailleurs, je suis conseiller scientifique au sein du pôle "Water and Waste" de la Florence School of Regulation et affilié au GoLAB de l'Université d'Oxford.

Mes travaux portent sur l'efficacité et la mise en œuvre des contrats publics et le choix des modes de gestion des services publics. 

NOUVELLES/PROJETS EN COURS

Dernière publication : Navigating contract renegotiations with sustainability at the helm: Societal benefits and transaction costs

Public procurement and cross-sector collaborations in national economies offer the opportunity for advances in sustainability practices, including through sustainability-related renegotiations during the execution of public contracts. Using rich, granular data from contract modification notices made publicly available by the European Union (EU) tenders electronic daily (TED), we investigate whether sustainability-related renegotiations, apart from generating positive environmental externalities, also limit ex-post transaction costs associated with contract renegotiations. Transaction costs are assessed in our study by the sentiment of renegotiations (negative or conflictual) and potential red flags associated with overly costly adjustments. Our findings suggest that regardless of whether contracts were initially focused on sustainable issues or not, sustainability-related renegotiations could have the dual benefit of a priori reducing environmental externalities while further limiting ex-post transaction costs associated with contract execution. More generally, contract modifications (renegotiations) may be under-utilised in public procurement contracts given their possible ‘double dividends’.



Domingos, F. D., J Heinrich, C., Saussier, S., & Shiva, M. (2024). Navigating contract renegotiations with sustainability at the helm: Societal benefits and transaction costs. Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20555636231222171

The article is available here 


Intervention au FMI.

March 28, 2023. Happy to give a talk in a few minutes at the International Monetary Fund on Infrastructure Contracts and Renegotiations. Thanks to Marian W. Moszoro for the invitation. I will talk about the work that is done for more than 10 years at the IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School at the Economics of Public Private Partnerships research group -- http://www.chaire-eppp.org 

Link

Global Challenges of Water Governance (2019)


The Economics of Public-Private Partnerships (2018) 


Contact

Stephane.Saussier[at]univ-paris1.fr