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  1. Is Private Production of Hospital Services Cheaper than Public Production? A Meta-Regression of Public Versus Private Costs and Efficiency for Hospitals

    Article • International Public Management Journal, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  2. Does Inter-Municipal Cooperation Really Reduce Delivery Costs? An Empirical Evaluation of the Role of Scale Economies, Transaction Costs, and Governance Arrangements

    Article • Urban Affairs Review, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Germà Bel

  3. Assessing the effects of the Mexican Drug War on economic growth: An empirical analysis

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  4. What have we learned from the last three decades of empirical studies on factors driving local privatisation?

    Article • Local Government Studies, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  5. Public and Private Production in a Mixed Delivery System: Regulation, Competition and Costs

    Article • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel, Jordi Rosell

  6. When supply travels far beyond demand: Causes of oversupply in Spain's transport infrastructure

    Article • Transport Policy, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  7. The environmental effects of changing speed limits: A quantile regression approach

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  8. Emission abatement: Untangling the impacts of the EU ETS and the economic crisis

    Article • Energy Economics, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  9. Risk Mitigation and Sharing in Motorway PPPs: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Alternative Approaches

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  10. Competition and cooperation between high-speed rail and air transportation services in Europe

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  11. The determinants of contractual choice for private involvement in infrastructure projects

    Article • Public Money & Management, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  12. INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION AND COSTS: EXPECTATIONS AND EVIDENCE

    Article • Public Administration, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  13. Editorial Overview: Symposium on Mixed and Hybrid Models of Public Service Delivery

    Article • International Public Management Journal, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  14. Beyond Pure Public and Pure Private Management Models: Partial Privatization in the European Airport Industry

    Article • International Public Management Journal, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  15. The dynamics of privatization and regulation of water services: a comparative study of two Spanish regions

    Article • International Journal of Water Resources Development, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  16. Effects of the 80km/h and variable speed limits on air pollution in the metropolitan area of barcelona

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  17. Market power, competition and post-privatization regulation: Evidence from changes in regulation of European airports

    Article • Journal of Economic Policy Reform, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  18. Public–Private Partnerships: Infrastructure, Transportation and Local Services

    Article • Local Government Studies, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel, Professor Rui Cunha Marques

  19. Recovery Risk and Labor Costs in Public–Private Partnerships: Contractual Choice in the US Water Industry

    Article • Local Government Studies, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  20. Why Do Municipalities Cooperate to Provide Local Public Services? An Empirical Analysis

    Article • Local Government Studies, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  21. Joint versus single management of large transport infrastructures

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  22. Estimating potential long-haul air passenger traffic in national networks containing two or more dominant cities

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  23. Institutional determinants of military spending

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  24. High-Speed Rail: Lessons for Policy Makers from Experiences Abroad

    Article • Public Administration Review, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  25. Speed limit laws in America: The role of geography, mobility and ideology

    Article • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  26. Beyond the efficiency-equity dilemma: Centralization as a determinant of government investment in infrastructure*

    Article • Papers of the Regional Science Association, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  27. Governance and regulation of urban bus transportation: Using partial privatization to achieve the better of two worlds

    Article • Regulation & Governance, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel, Joan Calzada Aymerich

  28. Infrastructure and nation building: The regulation and financing of network transportation infrastructures in Spain (1720–2010)

    Article • Business History, August 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  29. The first privatisation policy in Latin America: selling state-owned enterprises in 1948-1950 Puerto Rico

    Article • Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, July 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Germà Bel

  30. Motorways, tolls and road safety: evidence from Europe

    Article • SERIEs, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Germà Bel

  31. Big Guys Eat Big Cakes: Firm Size and Contracting in Urban and Rural Areas

    Article • International Public Management Journal, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  32. What shapes local public transportation in Europe? Economics, mobility, institutions, and geography

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  33. Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services

    Article • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, June 2010, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  34. Tourism and urban public transport: Holding demand pressure under supply constraints

    Article • Tourism Management, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  35. SIMILAR PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS: COMPARING REFUSE COLLECTION IN THE NETHERLANDS AND SPAIN

    Article • Public Administration, April 2010, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  36. Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany1

    Article • The Economic History Review, February 2010, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  37. Partial Privatisation in Local Services Delivery: An Empirical Analysis of the Choice of Mixed Firms

    Article • Local Government Studies, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  38. Choosing between Service Fees and Budget Funding to Pay for Local Services: Empirical Evidence from Spain

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Germà Bel

  39. Empirical analysis of solid management waste costs: Some evidence from Galicia, Spain

    Article • Resources Conservation and Recycling, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  40. Managing Competition in City Services: The Case of Barcelona

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  41. Privatization and Universal Service Obligations

    Article • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, December 2009, Mohr Siebeck

    Professor Germà Bel, Joan Calzada Aymerich

  42. Privatization, regulation and airport pricing: an empirical analysis for Europe

    Article • Journal of Regulatory Economics, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Germà Bel

  43. Intermunicipal cooperation, privatization and waste management costs: Evidence from rural municipalities

    Article • Waste Management, October 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  44. Preventing competition because of ‘solidarity’: rhetoric and reality of airport investments in Spain

    Article • Applied Economics, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  45. What Influences Advertising Price in Television Channels?: An Empirical Analysis on the Spanish Market

    Article • Journal of Media Economics, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  46. How to compete for a place in the world with a hand tied behind your back: The case of air transport services in Girona

    Article • Tourism Management, August 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  47. Tolls, Terms and Public Interest in Road Concessions Privatization: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Transactions in the USA and France

    Article • Transport Reviews, May 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  48. Privatization and Regulatory Reform of Toll Motorways in Europe

    Article • Governance, April 2009, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  49. Regulating concessions of toll motorways: An empirical study on fixed vs. variable term contracts

    Article • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  50. Factors explaining local privatization: a meta-regression analysis

    Article • Public Choice, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Germà Bel

  51. Does privatization of solid waste and water services reduce costs? A review of empirical studies

    Article • Resources Conservation and Recycling, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  52. COMPETITION OR MONOPOLY? COMPARING PRIVATIZATION OF LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE US AND SPAIN

    Article • Public Administration, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Germà Bel

  53. Reforming the local public sector: economics and politics in privatization of water and solid waste

    Article • Journal of Economic Policy Reform, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  54. Challenging Issues in Local Privatization

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, January 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Germà Bel

  55. Local government reform: Privatisation and its alternatives

    Article • Local Government Studies, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  56. Why do local governments privatise public services? A survey of empirical studies

    Article • Local Government Studies, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  57. Access Pricing to a Digital Broadcasting Platform

    Article • Journal of Media Economics, March 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  58. Access Pricing to a Digital Broadcasting Platform

    Article • Journal of Media Economics, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel, Joan Calzada Aymerich

  59. Retrospectives: The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany's National Socialist Party

    Article • Journal of Economic Perspectives, June 2006, American Economic Association

    Professor Germà Bel

  60. Do Public Sector Reforms Get Rusty? Local Privatization in Spain

    Article • The Journal of Policy Reform, March 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  61. Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  62. Factors Explaining Local Privatization: A Meta-Regression Analysis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  63. Privatization, corporate control and regulatory reform: the case of Telefonica

    Article • Telecommunications Policy, February 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  64. Is a Mixed Funding Model for the Highway Network Sustainable Over Time? The Spanish Case

    Article • Research in Transportation Economics, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  65. Factors Influencing the Privatisation of Urban Solid Waste Collection in Spain

    Article • Urban Studies, June 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Germà Bel

  66. Confidence building and politics in privatization: some evidence from Spain

    Article • Economics Letters, January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  67. Privatization: public offerings and political objectives

    Article • Applied Economics, July 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Germà Bel

  68. Changes in travel time across modes and its impact on the demand for inter-urban rail travel

    Article • Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, March 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Germà Bel

  69. Comment VIII

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  70. Machiavellian Taxation? The Political Economy of Public Service Financing

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  71. Getting There Fast: Globalization, Intercontinental Flights and Location of Headquarters

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  72. Refuse Collection in Spain: Privatization, Intermunicipal Cooperation, and Concentration

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Germà Bel

  73. Airport Management and Airline Competition in OECD Markets

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Germà Bel

  74. Tourism and Urban Transport: Holding Demand Pressure Under Supply Constraints

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  75. Do Public Sector Reforms Get Rusty? An Empirical Analysis on Privatization of Solid Waste Collection

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  76. Preventing Competition because of Solidarity: Rhetoric and Reality of Airport Investments in Spain

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  77. Transferencias Fiscales Interregionales en España: ¿Quién Paga y Quién No (Interregional Fiscal Transfers in Spain: Who Pays and Who Does Not?)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  78. Privatization and Competition in the Delivery of Local Services: An Empirical Examination of the Dual Market Hypothesis

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  79. Comparison of Recent Toll Road Concession Transactions in the United States and France

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  80. Is it Redistribution or Centralization? On the Determinants of Government Investment in Infrastructure

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  81. Transport infrastructure failures in Spain: mismanagement and incompetence, or political capture?

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel

  82. Local government size and efficiency in capital-intensive services: what evidence is there of economies of scale, density and scope?

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Germà Bel