En este documento se analizan los esquemas público y privado del servicio domiciliario de aseo de la ciudad de Bogotá en materia de tarifas, eficiencia e impactos sociales. Además, se hacen sugerencias de política para una organización adecuada del sistema de aseo.

While models of mixed oligopoly have been analyzed within a rapidly growing literature, little is known about the mechanism of efficiency improvement relating to partial privatization. In this paper, we endogenize efficiency improvement in relation to the level of privatization. We show that in...

A motivation for the paper is to reveal the "calculative silences" of scholars who limit their research and teaching to organisations that are centralised command and control hierarchies favoured by dictators. Centralisation introduces systemic unethical and dysfunctional relationships from the...

The question non longer is if more competition should be introduced in the German water and sewerage sector. The issue rather is what kind of competition ought to be implemented. There are mainly three different approaches: Competition in the Market; Competition for the Market and the...

Due to recent legislation, Benchmarking in the German water and sewerage sector will be introduced as widely as possible. Under certain conditions this decision by the German Bundestag might help to improve the efficiency of the industry. I will define two sets of conditions. First, a useful...

There is a lack of competition in the German water and sewerage sector. According to economic theory levels of service can be expected to be inefficient. I will check this hypothesis and therefore take a closer look at various categories of levels of service. In analysing the internet pages of...

Spanish Abstract: El documento presenta una revisión de la literatura sobre empresas públicas y regulación, con el objetivo de establecer las características fundamentales que debería contener esta última para atender a las particularidades de dichas empresas. Identificar las diferencias...

El documento presenta una revisión de la literatura sobre empresas públicas y regulación, con el objetivo de establecer las características fundamentales que debería contener esta última para atender a las particularidades de dichas empresas. Identificar las diferencias entre empresas...

In den Bereich der öffentlichen Haushaltswirtschaft, der ehedem fest in die Zuständigkeit der kameralistischen Buchhaltung fiel, dringen seit einer Reihe von Jahren Bestandteile des kaufmännischen Rechnungswesens ein. Ausgangspunkt dieser Entwicklung ist die Kritik, dass das kameralistische...