Is council co-operation cost efficient? An empirical analysis of waste collection in Spanish local government

Gemma Perez-Lopez, Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran and Brian Dollery ()

Public Money & Management, 2023, vol. 43, issue 2, 105-115

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1876335

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