As a result, and unlike the privately run power sector, policy makers have little incentive to implement an urgent overhaul that would inevitably lead to price increases.
An economic incisor or two would go a long way to making public sector decision makers sit up and take a bit more notice, especially in Germany.
In the energy sector, policy makers will have to guarantee that concessions involving foreign oil companies are awarded fairly and transparently and are not handed out to a favored few.
"With the ongoing demise of the financial sector, policy makers must fight to nurture and protect industries, such as Broadway, that have been proven to generate tourist dollars," Rocco Landesman, the president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns five Broadway houses, testified before the Assembly and Senate leaders.
Protective investments are extremely costly and risks are distributed in space and time, which poses important decision problems to the public sector decision makers.
In the healthcare sector, stent makers may see a slight uptick Tuesday on after a study published over the weekend suggested that drug-eluting stents made by medical device makers such as Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific may not lead to an increased risk of blood clots.
Lawsuits, especially patent disputes, are common in the technology sector as makers seek to protect their newest technologies from being commoditized and exploited by rivals.
As many of these determinants operate outside the health sector, decision makers will also need to consider the adoption of mechanisms for intersectoral action.
The public sector policy makers are dependent, at least in theory, on public opinion, and in order to consider the prerequisites for PPP, it is important to analyze whether public opinion supports private sector involvement in service provision [ 19].
