TY - JOUR
T1 - Is council co-operation cost efficient? : an empirical analysis of waste collection in Spanish local government
AU - Perez-Lopez, G.
AU - Tran, Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung
AU - Dollery, B.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Although there is an extensive literature examining the fiscal outcomes of municipal mergers and privatization, much less research has focused on council co-operation. This paper compares the relative cost of waste services under inter-municipal co-operation and stand-alone production by local councils in Spain from 2009 to 2015. Co-operation produced significant cost savings and the factors affecting municipal waste collection costs differed between these two modes of production.
AB - Although there is an extensive literature examining the fiscal outcomes of municipal mergers and privatization, much less research has focused on council co-operation. This paper compares the relative cost of waste services under inter-municipal co-operation and stand-alone production by local councils in Spain from 2009 to 2015. Co-operation produced significant cost savings and the factors affecting municipal waste collection costs differed between these two modes of production.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:74013
U2 - 10.1080/09540962.2021.1876335
DO - 10.1080/09540962.2021.1876335
M3 - Article
SN - 0954-0962
VL - 43
SP - 105
EP - 115
JO - Public Money and Management
JF - Public Money and Management
IS - 2
ER -
