The effects of market concentration on costs of local public services: empirical evidence from Dutch waste collection
Different concentration indexes are calculated for the Dutch waste collection market and all show that this market was highly concentrated in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014. The estimation results in 2002 show that private collection is cheaper but high concentration increases costs of private collection and therefore (partly) offsets the advantage of contracting out. In 2006, the savings gained from privatisation and also the effect of concentration disappear, probably due to the introduction of a VAT-compensation fund. In 2010, for an area with a radius of 30 km, high concentration increases cost... Mehr ...
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Gradus, R.H.J.M.
Schoute, M.
Dijkgraaf, E. |
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Artikel |
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2018 |
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Gradus , R H J M , Schoute , M & Dijkgraaf , E 2018 , ' The effects of market concentration on costs of local public services: empirical evidence from Dutch waste collection ' , Local Government Studies , vol. 44 , no. 1 , pp. 86-104 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2017.1380629 |
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Englisch |
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