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