Is there still collusion in the Dutch waste collection market?

Gradus, R.H.J.M.; Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Schoute, M.

doi:10.1080/03003930.2016.1194267

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“…On the other hand, intermunicipal cooperation forms oft en overlap with hybrid forms, and many inter-municipal companies are co-owned by both local governments and private companies within various public-private partnerships. From this point of view, our fi nding is an important contribution to present academic debate because alongside with the results by Gradus et al (2016) it challenges results of some previous research.…”

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confidence: 45%

“…Th e hypothesis for this variable is ambiguous. International studies reach various conclusions in this matter (Warner and Hefetz 2012;Gradus et al 2014;Gradus et al 2016). …”

Section: Mikušovámentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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).…”

Section: Rq3mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Warner and Hefetz 2012; Gradus et al 2014;Gradus et al 2016). In order to assess the infl uence of the hybrid form of enterprises on waste-management expenditure we use variable Hyb as a dummy variable that takes value 1 if the waste-management services are provided by the mixed form of enterprise (Public-Private partnership) and value 0 otherwise.…”

Section: Mikušovámentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Soukopová¹,

Klimovský²

2016

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Local governments are responsible for the delivery of a large variety of very different public services. Th e article is focused on two issues: 1) we try to discover whether the local governments in the Czech Republic prefer to be "producers" or "providers" of the waste-collection services; 2) we test and compare the effi ciency of "production" and the effi ciency of "provision", and for this purpose we take into account various factors, inter alia inter-municipal cooperation, the existence of hybrid organizations, economies of scale etc. A main goal is to fi nd out what the local governments in the Czech Republic prefer if they decide on the delivery of local services linked to waste management and what factors are the most important ones from the perspective of their potential infl uence on effi ciency. Concerning the data, we analyse linked open data on municipal solid waste expenditure collected by the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic and data relating to features of waste collection obtained via a questionnaire-based survey which was carried out at the turn of 2015 -2016. Th e results of the presented analysis show a clear relationship of dependence between the inter-municipal cooperation and the relevant costs, and it confi rms the assumption that the Czech local governments undoubtedly prefer the position of "providers" in the fi eld of the local waste management. Paradoxically, the results show that neither internal nor external provision of waste-collection services is a key factor of cost-effi ciency.

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Section: Conclusion and Implications For Practicementioning

confidence: 45%

“…Th e hypothesis for this variable is ambiguous. International studies reach various conclusions in this matter (Warner and Hefetz 2012;Gradus et al 2014;Gradus et al 2016). …”

Section: Mikušovámentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Mikušovámentioning

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

Soukopová¹,

Klimovský²

2016

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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“…Recent assessments of contracting and public spending levels in several countries find no association between the two (Alonso, Clifton, and Díaz-Fuentes 2017). Other studies indicate that contracting is subject to declining returns over time, which could be due to shrinking competition and/or public efficiency improvements resulting from the tendering process (Bel and Costas 2006;Gradus, Dijkgraaf, and Schoute 2016). While public organisations at the local, regional, and national levels continue to externalise services as part of their overall cost-containment strategies, recent studies emphasise the need for further empirical exploration of contracting outcomes and their determining factors.…”

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Contracting out local road and park services: economic effects and their strategic, contractual and competitive conditions

Lindholst

Petersen

Houlberg

2017

Local Government Studies

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The economic rationale for contracting out local services is increasingly contested by empirical research. This article aims to contribute to this literature, first, by scrutinising the economic effects of contracting out in local road and park services, and, second, by exploring how characteristics such as markets, contracts, municipal strategies, and contracting history influence these outcomes. Drawing on original survey data from Danish municipalities, we find that competitive tendering has on average reduced costs. Further analysis shows that savings are not associated with lower quality, thus indicating that 'quality shading' was not taking place. Another finding is that municipalities that repeatedly contract the services experience smaller savings, suggesting that competitive tendering is subject to declining marginal returns. Finally, we find that larger municipalities and those emphasising expenditure cuts realise larger savings, whereas the characteristics of markets and contracts do not seem to explain variations in cost savings.

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Reverse Privatization as a Reaction to the Competitive Environment: Evidence from Solid Waste Collection in Germany

Demuth

Friederiszick

Reinhold³

2021

Rev Ind Organ

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After earlier waves of privatization, local governments have increasingly taken back control of local service provisions in some sectors and countries and instead started providing those services themselves (reverse privatization). Using a unique panel dataset on the mode of service provision for solid waste collection for German municipalities that cover the years 2003, 2009, and 2015, we investigate the motives for reverse privatization. Our results show that—in deciding whether to insource or not—municipalities react to the cost advantages of private suppliers as well as to the competitive environment and municipal activity: there is more switching to insourcing in concentrated markets and in markets with horizontally or vertically related public services. Local interest groups influence this decision as well.

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Is there still collusion in the Dutch waste collection market?

Cited by 23 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

Contracting out local road and park services: economic effects and their strategic, contractual and competitive conditions

Reverse Privatization as a Reaction to the Competitive Environment: Evidence from Solid Waste Collection in Germany

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