Justine Le Floch, doctorante à l’IAE Paris Sorbonne et l’Institut d’économie de l’eau.
« From Opportunism to Scrutiny: How Third-Party Litigation Disciplines Water Contracting »
Abstract :
In a context of increasing tensions among stakeholders over water resource allocation, the capacity for value co-creation among public authorities, private operators, and citizens has become essential. Concurrently, the steady rise in environmental litigation signals stronger external scrutiny over water contract governance. This paper investigates whether and how third-party administrative litigation acts as an institutional mechanism capable of disciplining contractual behavior and improving water service quality. Using an event-study design, we estimate the causal impact of third-party litigation on service quality outcomes. We assemble an original dataset covering all administrative disputes brought by third parties against public water contracts in France between 2005 and 2023.
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