competition may come to outweigh gains from privatization. Second, the threat of privatization may have stimulated public unit … managers to search for alternative reforms. The results suggest that both inter-municipal cooperation and recent privatization … are associated with lower costs, while old privatization is not. …

privatization modality of contracting out. We start by discussing some of the theoretical aspects of contracting out. We then …

concentration and bidding competition decrease in the privatized sector may have outweighed eventual gains coming from privatization …. On the other hand, the threat that privatization may represent for public unit managers may have stimulated them to … recent privatization are associated with lower costs. Instead, old privatization is not associated with lower costs. …

Privatization of local public services has been implemented worldwide in the last decades. Why local governments … explain local privatization. Such works have found a great diversity of motivations, and the variation among reported … privatization specially in the studies of US cases published in the eighties that consider a broad range of services. Studies that …

faces a consolidation problem, opting more frequently to implement policies of privatization and cooperation, at the expense … privatization and cooperation, and more to competition. The two options - cooperation and competition - have their merits when …

This paper examines factors influencing privatization in solid waste collection and water distribution. We take …