Privatization of local public services has been implemented worldwide in the last decades. Why local governments … explain local privatization. Such works have found a great diversity of motivations, and the variation among reported … privatization specially in the studies of US cases published in the eighties that consider a broad range of services. Studies that …

accounting for different amounts of transaction costs: water and solid waste delivery. Our results show that privatization is …Several empirical studies have analyzed the factors that influence local privatization. We examine the influence of … transaction costs and political factors on local governments' choices through new variables. We consider two relevant services …

This paper examines factors influencing privatization in solid waste collection and water distribution. We take … costs differ according to the specific characteristics of the considered service. In this regard, the dispersion of …

accounting for different amounts of transaction costs: water and solid waste delivery. Our results show that privatization is …Several empirical studies have analyzed the factors that influence local privatization. We examine the influence of … transaction costs and political factors on local governments' choices through new variables. We consider two relevant services …

faces a consolidation problem, opting more frequently to implement policies of privatization and cooperation, at the expense … privatization and cooperation, and more to competition. The two options - cooperation and competition - have their merits when … striving to strike a balance between transaction costs and scale economies. The choices made in organizational reform seem to …

This paper examines factors influencing privatization in solid waste collection and water distribution. We take … costs differ according to the specific characteristics of the considered service. In this regard, the dispersion of …

Several empirical studies have analyzed the factors that influence local privatization. Variables related to fiscal … studies. In this paper, we add to this literature by examining the influence of transaction costs and political factors on … intermunicipal cooperation as a potential alternative to privatization in order to exploit scale economies or scope economies. We …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of intermunicipal cooperation and privatization on the delivery costs … municipalities, indicate that small towns that cooperate incur lower costs for their waste collection service. Cooperation also …, whether it is public or private, does not result in systematic differences in costs. Interestingly, the degree of population …

recent privatization are associated with lower costs. Instead, old privatization is not associated with lower costs. …Recent empirical evidence, from countries in the European Union in particular, are much more ambiguous on the costs … model of factors driving costs in solid waste collection is specified and estimated, using a sample on Spanish …