Do Public Sector Reforms Get Rusty? Local Privatization in Spain

By G. Bel, A. Costas. 2006

229 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/42c20afa5d6c5f3ef23e465520fa48eac5a77001

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

In Political Science and International Relations

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Collusion in the Dutch waste collection market (2007, background): “This differs from Bel and Costas (2006) who found inter-municipal cooperation to be the privatisation alternative.”
Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies (2007, background): “Several studies show the relevance of scale economies for this sector (Stevens, 1978; Callan & Thomas, 2001; Bel & Costas 2006).”
Beyond the market versus planning dichotomy: Understanding privatisation and its reverse in US cities (2007, background): “This failure is not simply due to transaction costs; it has to do with the industrial organisation of the market itself (Warner & Bel, 2006 ).”
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, methodology): “The market mechanism and exposure to competition, according to this argument, not only increases the ef ﬁ ciency of the external (contracted out) services, but also of the internally produced services (Bel and Costas 2006 ).”
Privatization and Intermunicipal Contracting: The US Local Government Experience 1992–2007 (2012, background): “Small rural communities in Spain cooperate to gain scale and then contract out jointly to private fi rms, thus exercising a stronger market position with private fi rms (Bel and Costas, 2006; Bel and Mur, 2009).”
Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis (2009, background): “Several studies show the relevance of scale economies for this sector (Stevens, 1978; Callan and Thomas, 2001; Bel and Costas 2006).”
Does privatization of solid waste and water services reduce costs? A review of empirical studies (2008, background): “But more recent evidence addresses changes in the structure of the solid waste management sector, where significant consolidation during the 1990s has led to erosion in cost savings over time (Bel and Costas, 2006; Dijkgraaf and Gradus, 2007, 2008).”
Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services (2010, background): “ Bel and Costas (2006) and Dijkgraaf and Gradus (2007).”