Economies of Scale and Scope: A Cost Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Services

By S. J. Callan, Janet M. Thomas. Land Economics, 2001

248 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Xavier Fageda
2. G. Bel
3. M. Warner
4. Bernardino Benito
5. Brian W. Jacobs
6. Ravi Subramanian
7. J. A. García
8. F. Bastida

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. G. Bel
2. Ravi Subramanian
3. Xavier Fageda
4. M. Warner
5. Gilvan C. Souza

Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Explaining differences in efficiency: an application to Spanish municipalities (2010, background): “Regarding the service of refuse collection, Stevens (1978), Dubin and Navarro (1988) and Callan and Thomas (2001) also find greater efficiency in municipalities with smaller population. Nevertheless, for the same service, Kitchen (1976) finds economies of scale while LG size increases up to 324 000 ”
• Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis (2009, unknown): “Several studies show the relevance of scale economies for this sector (Stevens, 1978; Callan and Thomas, 2001; Bel and Costas 2006).”
• Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services (2010, background): “Several studies have found evidence of scale economies in solid waste collection (Stevens, 1978; Callan & Thomas, 2001; Bel & Costas, 2006; Bel & Fageda, in press), but scale economies are exhausted as population increases.”
• Sharing Responsibility for Product Recovery Across the Supply Chain (2012, background): “Recycling, on the other hand, typically exhibits economies of scale; we therefore assume a concave increasing recycling cost (e.g., Callan and Thomas 2001, Toyasaki et al. 2011).”