Measuring the efficiency of Spanish municipal refuse collection services
By Núria Vergés Bosch, Francisco Pedraja, J. Suárez-Pandiello. 2000
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The aim of this article is to analyse the technical efficiency of the refuse collection services in 75 municipalities located in Catalonia, Spain. The analysis has been carried out using a great variety of techniques, both parametric and non‐parametric. Although the results naturally differ according to the technique used, they nevertheless are consistent in ranking the units analysed. Finally, we have looked into the relation existing between efficiency and the public or private management of the service. The results seem to support the idea that the framework for competition in which the service is provided could be more relevant than the private‐public management dichotomy.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Elbert Dijkgraaf
- Raymond Gradus
- Bernardino Benito
- Emili Tortosa‐Ausina
- M. Balaguer‐Coll
- J. A. García
- Diego Prior
- F. Bastida
In Management Science and Operations Research
- Bernardino Benito
- Emili Tortosa‐Ausina
- M. Balaguer‐Coll
- J. A. García
- Diego Prior
- F. Bastida
- M. Warner
Citations in the corpus
- Cost Savings of Contracting Out Refuse Collection (2005, background): “Bosch et al. (2000) analyse Spanish data for 73 municipalities in Catalonia.”
- Decentralization and efficiency of local government (2010, background): “For instance, Bosch et al. (2000) deal with the measurement of efficiency in Spanish municipal garbage collection services.”
- Efficiency and productivity (2008, unknown): “…and Smith (2004) Loizides and Tsionas (2004) Real estate investment trusts Lewis et al. (2003) Anderson et al. (2004) Refuse collection and recycling Bosch et al. (2000) Worthington and Dollery (2001) Lozano et al. (2004) Sports Haas (2003) Lins et al. (2003) Fried et al. (2004) Amos et al.…”
- Explaining differences in efficiency: an application to Spanish municipalities (2010, methodology): “This methodology has been successfully applied to public services provided by municipalities of several Spanish regions (Bosch et al , 2000 ; Diez-Ticio et al , 2000 ; Prieto and Zofio, 2001 ; Gimenez and Prior, 2003 ; Balaguer et al , 2007 ; Gimenez and Prior, 2007 ).”