The effects of market concentration on costs of local public services: empirical evidence from Dutch waste collection

被引:14
作者
Gradus, Raymond [1 ,2 ]
Schoute, Martijn [1 ]
Dijkgraaf, Elbert [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Sch Business & Econ, Dept Accounting, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[2] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Tinbergen Inst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[4] Erasmus Univ, Tinbergen Inst, Rotterdam, Netherlands
关键词
Concentration indexes; waste collection; private firms; effects on cost; the Netherlands; COLLUSION; SECTOR;
D O I
10.1080/03003930.2017.1380629
中图分类号
TU98 [区域规划、城乡规划];
学科分类号
083304 [住房发展与社区规划];
摘要
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 costs, but for larger areas, this effect mostly disappears. For 2014, in most estimations, this concentration effect disappears. If we include fixed effects for a panel, the cost advantage of inter-municipal cooperation is larger than that of private production and concentration effects also disappear. Overall, these estimation results are rather independent of the concentration indexes used, if we investigate several indexes as an alternative for the Herfindahl-Hirschman index.
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页码:86 / 104
页数:19
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