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«Public Administration Issues» Journal,

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National Research University
Higher School of Economics
20 Myasnitskaya Str., Moscow 101000, Russian Federation
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Research and educational journal
Published quarterly since 2007
ISSN 1999-5431
E-ISSN 2409-5095

Bel Germà 1, Fageda Xavier 2, E. Mildred 3
  • 1 Professor, Dr., University of Barcelona and Guest Professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics., Dep. of Economic Policy Av. Diagonal, 690 08034 Barcelona.
  • 2 Professor, Dr., University of Barcelona., Dep. of Economic Policy Av. Diagonal, 690 08034 Barcelona.
  • 3 Ph.D., Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, 215 W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-6701.

Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services

2014. No. 3. P. 103–140 [issue contents]

Privatization of local government services is assumed to deliver cost savings, but empirical evidence for this from around the world is mixed. We conduct a meta-regression analysis of all econometric studies examining privatization of water distribution and solid waste collection services and find no systematic support for lower costs with private production. Differences in study results are explained by differences in time period of the analyses, service characteristics, and policy environment. We do not find a genuine empirical effect of cost savings resulting from private production. The results suggest that to ensure cost savings, more attention be given to the cost characteristics of the service, the transaction costs involved, and the policy environment stimulating competition, rather than to the debate over public versus private delivery of these services.

Citation: Germà B., Xavier F., Mildred E. (2014)

Yavlyaetsya li chastnoe proizvodstvo obshchestvennykh uslug deshevle gosudarstvennogo? Metaregressionnyy analiz  uslug po utilizatsii tverdykh otkhodov i vodosnabzheniyu [Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services]. Public Administration Issues, no 3, pp. 103-140 (in Russian)

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