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  1. Joining forces or going solo? The political and economic dynamics of intermunicipal cooperation
  2. The effect of inter‐municipal cooperation on social assistance programs: Evidence from housing allowances in England
  3. The effect of Door-to-Door on separate collection of plastic packaging: evidence from Catalonia
  4. Fifty years of local government studies: evolution, internationalisation, and the future of the field
  5. Paying for protection: bilateral trade with an alliance leader and defense spending of minor partners
  6. Extent and dynamics of the remunicipalisation of public services
  7. Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery
  8. Local government reform beyond privatization and amalgamation: advances in the analysis of inter-municipal cooperation
  9. Changing prices after the reform of local public services: remunicipalization versus privatization
  10. Provision and production of public services by local governments
  11. Re-organizing the service-delivery machine in a “post-NPM” era: a shopping-basket approach?
  12. Going separate ways: ex-post interdependence and the dissolution of collaborative relations
  13. E-Government and provision of public services: economic, social, and political determinants of citizen complaints
  14. If it ain't broke, don't fix it: When collaborative public management becomes collaborative excess
  15. The influence of population aging on global climate policy
  16. When the time is right: testing for dynamic effects in collaborative performance
  17. Intermunicipal cooperation: an assessment of drivers and effects
  18. An evaluation of optimal scale and jurisdiction size to improve efficiency in metropolitan bus systems
  19. The Unequal Distribution of Consequences of Contracting Out: Female, Low-skilled, and Young Workers Pay the Highest Price
  20. Ideology, political polarisation and agility of policy responses: was weak executive federalism a curse or a blessing for COVID-19 management in the USA?
  21. Trends and comparisons of outcomes between public and privately owned utilities
  22. Mobility, environment and inequalities in the post-COVID city
  23. Styles of inter-municipal cooperation and the multiple principal problem: a comparative analysis of European Economic Area countries
  24. Dynamics of intergroup conflict and attitudes towards outgroup members: evidence from terrorist and secession conflicts
  25. Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain
  26. Does inter-municipal collaboration improve public service resilience? Evidence from local authorities in England
  27. Geography and regional economic growth: The high cost of deviating from nature
  28. Decoupling synthetic control methods to ensure stability, accuracy and meaningfulness
  29. The Effect of Health and Economic Costs on Governments’ Policy Responses to COVID‐19 Crisis under Incomplete Information
  30. Re-municipalization of local public services: incidence, causes and prospects
  31. The effects of moratoriums on hotel building: an anti-tourism measure, or rather protection for local incumbents?
  32. Government choice between contract termination and contract expiration in re-municipalization: a case of historical recurrence?
  33. Beyond government size: Types of government intervention and corruption
  34. Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs
  35. Are we there yet? Understanding the implementation of re-municipalization decisions and their duration
  36. The costs of corporatization: Analysing the effects of forms of governance
  37. (Re)Municipalisation
  38. The Benefits of PSM: An Oasis or a Mirage?
  39. Politicians, bureaucrats and the public–private choice in public service delivery: anybody there pushing for remunicipalization?
  40. Re-municipalization of public services: trend or hype?
  41. Crisis? What crisis? Economic recovery and support for independence in Catalonia
  42. It Depends on What You Share: The Elusive Cost Savings from Service Sharing
  43. Is Private Production of Hospital Services Cheaper than Public Production? A Meta-Regression of Public Versus Private Costs and Efficiency for Hospitals
  44. Politics, risk, and white elephants in infrastructure PPPs
  45. Does Inter-Municipal Cooperation Really Reduce Delivery Costs? An Empirical Evaluation of the Role of Scale Economies, Transaction Costs, and Governance Arrangements
  46. Do government formation deadlocks really damage economic growth? Evidence from history's longest period of government formation impasse
  47. Delusions of success: Costs and demand of high-speed rail in Italy and Spain
  48. Assessing the effects of the Mexican Drug War on economic growth: An empirical analysis
  49. Policy stringency under the European Union Emission trading system and its impact on technological change in the energy sector
  50. Evaluation of the impact of Bus Rapid Transit on air pollution in Mexico City
  51. Climate change mitigation and the role of technological change: Impact on selected headline targets of Europe's 2020 climate and energy package
  52. Beyond privatisation and cost savings: alternatives for local government reform
  53. Privatisation, contracting-out and inter-municipal cooperation: new developments in local public service delivery
  54. These rules are made for spending: testing and extending the law of 1/n
  55. Myopic PPPs: Risk allocation and hidden liabilities for taxpayers and users
  56. Weakening political connections by means of regulatory reform: Evidence from contracting out water services in Spain
  57. The impact of socioeconomic characteristics on CO 2 emissions associated with urban mobility: Inequality across individuals
  58. What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation?
  59. Editorial statement
  60. Cost-benefit analysis of various California renewable portfolio standard targets: Is a 33% RPS optimal?
  61. How Much Vertical Integration? Contractual Choice and Public–Private Partnerships in the United States
  62. Evaluating High-Speed Rail
  63. Social welfare analysis of investment public–private partnership approaches for transportation projects
  64. The desired and undesired effects of infrastructure and transport policy reforms: An introduction
  65. Effects of unit-based pricing on household waste collection demand: A meta-regression analysis
  66. Public-Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
  67. Public and Private Production in a Mixed Delivery System: Regulation, Competition and Costs
  68. Does market concentration affect prices in the urban water industry?
  69. Factors explaining inter-municipal cooperation in service delivery: a meta-regression analysis
  70. When supply travels far beyond demand: Causes of oversupply in Spain's transport infrastructure
  71. The environmental effects of changing speed limits: A quantile regression approach
  72. Emission abatement: Untangling the impacts of the EU ETS and the economic crisis
  73. Risk Mitigation and Sharing in Motorway PPPs: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Alternative Approaches
  74. Competition and cooperation between high-speed rail and air transportation services in Europe
  75. The determinants of contractual choice for private involvement in infrastructure projects
  76. INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION AND COSTS: EXPECTATIONS AND EVIDENCE
  77. Editorial Overview: Symposium on Mixed and Hybrid Models of Public Service Delivery
  78. Beyond Pure Public and Pure Private Management Models: Partial Privatization in the European Airport Industry
  79. The dynamics of privatization and regulation of water services: a comparative study of two Spanish regions
  80. Effects of the 80km/h and variable speed limits on air pollution in the metropolitan area of barcelona
  81. Market power, competition and post-privatization regulation: Evidence from changes in regulation of European airports
  82. Public–Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services
  83. Recovery Risk and Labor Costs in Public–Private Partnerships: Contractual Choice in the US Water Industry
  84. Why Do Municipalities Cooperate to Provide Local Public Services? An Empirical Analysis
  85. Joint versus single management of large transport infrastructures
  86. Estimating potential long-haul air passenger traffic in national networks containing two or more dominant cities
  87. Does Cooperation Reduce Service Delivery Costs? Evidence from Residential Solid Waste Services
  88. Institutional determinants of military spending
  89. High-Speed Rail: Lessons for Policy Makers from Experiences Abroad
  90. Speed limit laws in America: The role of geography, mobility and ideology
  91. Beyond the efficiency-equity dilemma: Centralization as a determinant of government investment in infrastructure*
  92. Governance and regulation of urban bus transportation: Using partial privatization to achieve the better of two worlds
  93. Infrastructure and nation building: The regulation and financing of network transportation infrastructures in Spain (1720–2010)
  94. The first privatisation policy in Latin America: selling state-owned enterprises in 1948-1950 Puerto Rico
  95. Motorways, tolls and road safety: evidence from Europe
  96. Big Guys Eat Big Cakes: Firm Size and Contracting in Urban and Rural Areas
  97. The first privatisation: selling SOEs and privatising public monopolies in Fascist Italy (1922-1925)
  98. La racionalización de las infraestructuras de transporte en España
  99. What shapes local public transportation in Europe? Economics, mobility, institutions, and geography
  100. Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services
  101. Tourism and urban public transport: Holding demand pressure under supply constraints
  102. SIMILAR PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS: COMPARING REFUSE COLLECTION IN THE NETHERLANDS AND SPAIN
  103. Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany1
  104. Partial Privatisation in Local Services Delivery: An Empirical Analysis of the Choice of Mixed Firms
  105. Choosing between Service Fees and Budget Funding to Pay for Local Services: Empirical Evidence from Spain
  106. Empirical analysis of solid management waste costs: Some evidence from Galicia, Spain
  107. Managing Competition in City Services: The Case of Barcelona
  108. Privatization and Universal Service Obligations
  109. Privatization, regulation and airport pricing: an empirical analysis for Europe
  110. Intermunicipal cooperation, privatization and waste management costs: Evidence from rural municipalities
  111. Preventing competition because of ‘solidarity’: rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain
  112. What Influences Advertising Price in Television Channels?: An Empirical Analysis on the Spanish Market
  113. What Local Policy Makers Should Know about Urban Road Charging: Lessons from Worldwide Experience
  114. How to compete for a place in the world with a hand tied behind your back: The case of air transport services in Girona
  115. Tolls, Terms and Public Interest in Road Concessions Privatization: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Transactions in the USA and France
  116. Privatization and Regulatory Reform of Toll Motorways in Europe
  117. Regulating concessions of toll motorways: An empirical study on fixed vs. variable term contracts
  118. Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis
  119. Does privatization of solid waste and water services reduce costs? A review of empirical studies
  120. COMPETITION OR MONOPOLY? COMPARING PRIVATIZATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE US AND SPAIN
  121. Reforming the local public sector: economics and politics in privatization of water and solid waste
  122. Challenging Issues in Local Privatization
  123. Getting there fast: globalization, intercontinental flights and location of headquarters
  124. Local government reform: Privatisation and its alternatives
  125. Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies
  126. Access Pricing to a Digital Broadcasting Platform
  127. Access Pricing to a Digital Broadcasting Platform
  128. Retrospectives: The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany's National Socialist Party
  129. Do Public Sector Reforms Get Rusty? Local Privatization in Spain
  130. Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany
  131. Factors Explaining Local Privatization: A Meta-Regression Analysis
  132. Privatization, corporate control and regulatory reform: the case of Telefonica
  133. Is a Mixed Funding Model for the Highway Network Sustainable Over Time? The Spanish Case
  134. Factors Influencing the Privatisation of Urban Solid Waste Collection in Spain
  135. Confidence building and politics in privatization: some evidence from Spain
  136. Privatization: public offerings and political objectives
  137. Changes in travel time across modes and its impact on the demand for inter-urban rail travel
  138. Comment VIII
  139. Machiavellian Taxation? The Political Economy of Public Service Financing
  140. Getting There Fast: Globalization, Intercontinental Flights and Location of Headquarters
  141. Refuse Collection in Spain: Privatization, Intermunicipal Cooperation, and Concentration
  142. Airport Management and Airline Competition in OECD Markets
  143. Tourism and Urban Transport: Holding Demand Pressure Under Supply Constraints
  144. Do Public Sector Reforms Get Rusty? An Empirical Analysis on Privatization of Solid Waste Collection
  145. Preventing Competition because of Solidarity: Rhetoric and Reality of Airport Investments in Spain
  146. Transferencias Fiscales Interregionales en España: ¿Quién Paga y Quién No (Interregional Fiscal Transfers in Spain: Who Pays and Who Does Not?)
  147. Privatization and Competition in the Delivery of Local Services: An Empirical Examination of the Dual Market Hypothesis
  148. Comparison of Recent Toll Road Concession Transactions in the United States and France
  149. Is it Redistribution or Centralization? On the Determinants of Government Investment in Infrastructure
  150. Transport infrastructure failures in Spain: mismanagement and incompetence, or political capture?
  151. Local government size and efficiency in capital-intensive services: what evidence is there of economies of scale, density and scope?