Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal …

using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing …

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

There are several theoretical accounts of public sector outsourcing. We note that leading theories give different … predictions of the influence of political variables and test the predictions on a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies … between municipalities and over time as well as between services. Our identification strategy focuses on two services with …

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

's motivation. In a first step, we allow for the possibility that some agents stick to unverifiable agreements. The larger the …