Supply of Publicly Financed Services: Market and Non-Market Failures

Evgenia Penkova–Pantaleeva; Denitsa Gorchilova–Atanasova; Alexander Valkov

doi:10.37075/YB.2019.1.01

Authors

Assoc. Prof. Dr Evgenia Penkova–Pantaleeva Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author
Assoc. Prof. Dr Denitsa Gorchilova–Atanasova Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author
Assoc. Prof. Dr Alexander Valkov Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Administration, UNWE Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37075/YB.2019.1.01

Keywords:

Publicly financed services, Market and nonmarket failures, Public and private supply

H42, H44

Abstract

The article discusses the characteristics of the publicly financed healthcare, educational and social services with a special focus on their market and non-market failures. Traditional failures like informational asymmetry, incomplete market and territorial misbalances are tested. It becomes evident that those failures manifest not only in the cases of private supply, but also in the public sector. On the contrary, non-market failures become features of the private supply.

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