Acknowledgments:We are grateful to comments received when this paper was presented at the First Barcelona Workshop on Public-Private Partnerships (Barcelona) and the XIX Encuentro de Economía Pública (Santiago de Compostela). Comments and suggestions received from Trevor Brown have been extremely useful. We have benefited as well from comments and suggestions by three anonymous referees.
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