Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis

By G. Bel, Xavier Fageda. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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1. M. Warner
2. G. Bel
3. A. Hefetz
4. Xavier Fageda
5. M. Mur
6. António F. Tavares
7. Pedro J. Camöes
8. E. Vigoda-Gadot

Citations in the corpus

• Contracting or Public Delivery? The Importance of Service, Market and Management Characteristics (2012, background): “Some authors find that transactions costs in the market are important in explaining decisions regarding service delivery choice (Bel and Fageda 2008, 2009; Brown and Potoski 2003a, 2003b; Entwistle 2005; Ferris and Graddy 1994; Kavanagh and Parker 1999; Levin and Tadelis 2010; Lowery 1998; Hefetz…”
• Local service delivery choices in Portugal: A political transaction costs framework (2007, background): “Political factors previously identified in the service delivery literature, such as financial dependency from upper level governments, interest group activity, and ideological concerns may also be at work in the Portuguese context (Ferris & Graddy, 1986 ; Stein, 1990 ; Nelson, 1997 ; Clingermayer”
• What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation? (2017, methodology): “Bel and Fageda (2009) perform ameta-regression analysis with the same sample of studies as that used in Bel and Fageda (2007) and reach similar conclusions.”
• Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services (2010, background): “…inequities (Ringquist, 2005), the natural rate hypothesis (Stanley, 2005a), cartel overcharges (Connor & Bolotova, 2006), voter turnout (Geys, 2006), productivity gains of urban agglomeration economies (Melo, Graham, & Noland, 2009), and factors explaining local privatization (Bel & Fageda, 2009).”
• Does Cooperation Reduce Service Delivery Costs? Evidence from Residential Solid Waste Services (2014, background): “Recall that scale economies is only one among several factors that induce local public services privatization (Bel and Fageda 2007, 2009).”