Does privatization of solid waste and water services reduce costs? A review of empirical studies

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Is Contracting out of Public Services still the Great Panacea? A Systematic Review of Studies on Economic and Quality Effects from 2000 to 2014 (2018, background): “…choice and property rights theory is industrial organization literature , which stresses a number of factors that make public markets distinct from traditional private markets and thus create less optimal conditions for contracting out than expected by public choice theory (Bel and Warner 2008 ).”
Insourcing and Outsourcing (2012, background): “Expectations of costs savings are not well supported by a careful reading of economic theory, and empirically the evidence for cost savings is weak (Bel and Warner 2008).”
Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services (2010, background): “Of the original 35 studies identified by Bel and Warner (2008), we excluded those that did not use an explicit cost variable and included three additional recent papers on solid waste collection (Bel & Mur, 2009; Bel & Fageda, in press; Bae, in press).”
A Meta-Regression Analysis of Benchmarking Studies on Water Utilities Market Structure (2012, background): “Inappropriate market structure (size distribution of utilities relative to the market size) jeopardizes the attainment of organizational efficiency and reduces the value for money in monopolized markets (Bel and Warner, 2008).”