Measuring the Efficiency of Public and Private Delivery Forms: An Application to theWaste Collection Service Using Order-M Data Panel Frontier Analysis
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Campos Alba, Cristina María; la Higuera-Molina, Emilio J. De; Pérez López, Gemma; Zafra-Gómez, José L.Editorial
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Efficiency Local government Order-m data panel Waste collection
Date
2019-04-06Referencia bibliográfica
Campos-Alba, C.M. [et al.]. Measuring the Efficiency of Public and Private Delivery Forms: An Application to theWaste Collection Service Using Order-M Data Panel Frontier Analysis. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2056; doi:10.3390/su11072056.
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This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (ECO2016-76578-R, and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports under Grant (FPU16/04279).Résumé
Many studies have been undertaken to determine whether waste collection services are
provided more efficiently by private or by public management. To date, however, the findings
reported are inconclusive, partly due to the need to evaluate this question over a broad time horizon.
In this paper, the question is examined taking into account an extended study period (2002–2014) and
applying an order-m data panel method that provides more robust findings than those reported in
previous research. The results show that, in general, public-sector provision of the waste collection
service is more efficient than private alternatives.