Remunicipalization of water services in France and inter-municipal cooperation: who’s at the helm?

Alexandre Mayol () and Stéphane Saussier ()
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Alexandre Mayol: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Stéphane Saussier: IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School

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Abstract: In this paper, we address the remunicipalization question from a novel perspective: by looking at "who is at the helm". Using a comprehensive panel dataset covering the complete universe of French drinking water services from 2009 to 2021, we show that the type of local governments in charge of supervising water services (inter-municipal cooperation or not) influences the decision to remunicipalize. We argue that this is because the costs of negotiating the remunicipalization of water services as well as the level of involvement in the investment and supervision of water services vary according to the type of local government. We conclude by discussing the lessons to be learned from our study concerning the future of remunicipalizations in France.

Keywords: Remunicipalization; Contract renewals; Private managemen; Twater tariffs; Renegotiations; Inter-municipal cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-08-24
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Published in Local Government Studies, 2023, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1080/03003930.2023.2250266⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2023.2250266

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