Competitive environment in waste management and its impact on municipal expenditures

Abstract

This paper is based on the analysis of competitive environment in waste management in the South Moravian Region and its impact on current municipal expenditures. The paper presents the changes in the development of the municipal waste management and more specifically in the municipal solid waste expenditure per capita of the municipalities from South Moravia Region in the Czech Republic. The main goal of this paper is to examine the impact of competitive environment on the expenditure efficiency. We assume that spatial aspect of competitive environment has significant influence on the expenditure. This hypothesis was based on results of research rejected. The paper compares expenditure per capita for several municipality size groups and the data are also analysed separately for the each of the 7 districts of South Moravia Region in order to identify any significant differences in the development between the districts within the region. The period of the analysis covers 5 years from 2007 to 2011 and the sample consists of all 673 South Moravian municipalities.

Does the Lowest Bid Price Evaluation Criterion Make for a More Efficient Public Procurement Selection Criterion? (Case of the Czech Republic)

“…The collective work by Kameník et al (2011) examines the openness of procurement procedures. The issue of the competitive environment in waste management and its impact on municipal expenditures is dealt with by Soukopová and Malý (2013). In the Slovak Republic, the empirical analysis of public procurement is particularly dealt with by Meričková et al (2010), Nemec (2012), Sičáková Beblavá and Beblavý (2009), Vlček (2004 and Vozárová (2012).…”

Local Governments and Local Waste Management in the Czech Republic: Producers or Providers?

“…Nemec et al 2005;Pavel and Sičáková-Beblavá 2008;Ochrana and Nekola 2009;Nemec et al 2012;Mikušová Meričková and Nemec 2013;Soukopová and Malý 2013;Mikušová Meričková et al 2014;Vaceková 2015, Soukopová et al 2016) and there are several other sources of data obtained under the conditions of Central and Eastern Europe (for example Lember 2004;Grafenauer and Klarić 2011). Most of these studies, however, do not deal with waste management; see Table 2, which presents only the studies dealing with waste-management-related issues and their results.…”

“…Soukopová and Malý 2013). From this point of view, it is diffi cult to formulate any clear assumption.…”

“…Th e relation between the manner of ensuring public utility services and eff ectiveness was studied by a number of "Western" authors, fi rst mostly in the USA, Canada and the UK (Hirsch 1965;Stevens 1978;McDavid 1985;Domberger et al 1986;Callan and Th omas 2001), later also in European countries, for example in Spain (Bel and Costas 2006;Bel et al 2010;Bel et al 2014;Benito et al 2014), the Netherlands Gradus 2003 2007;Gradus et al 2014Gradus et al , 2016, Italy (Lombrano 2009), etc. Recently, the debate was also opened in the "Eastern European" countries, and a number of studies was conducted in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (for example Nemec et al 2005Nemec et al , 2012Ochrana et al 2007;Nemec 2013, Soukopová andMalý 2013;Mikušová Meričková et al 2014). …”

The Impact of the Choice of Evaluation Criteria and the Type of Tender on the Awarding Public Contracts (in the Case of Construction Contracts at the Local Level in the Czech Republic)

“…From the above analysis, we can deduce that the number of bidders will have a strong impact on the normalized price, i.e. true competition in the construction sector, since the greater the number of participants is, the harder it is for companies to be able to coordinate their behavior (Soukopová, Malý, 2013). The number of participants can also be infl uenced by the kind of tenders announced.…”