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Rekommunalisierung: Renaissance öffentlicher Unternehmen?

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  • Felix Höffler
  • Christina Schaefer
  • Ulf Papenfuß
  • Martin Rosenfeld
  • Gerd Landsberg

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The decision to provide services of general interest by public or private enterprises has to be based on the following key issue: should one refer to these services as public goods? This question cannot be answered generally but has to be addressed on a case-tocase basis. Although there are some tendencies for remunicipalisation, especially in the energy sector, empirical studies show a lack of evidence about actual remunicipalisation of public service provisions and its impacts. To explain why local governments in Germany are presently thinking about remunicipalising some services there are changing factors to be identified. However, a closer look at the changing determinants makes clear that there are other options apart from remunicipalisation. Local politicians may have many reasons for providing services by public entities. The most relevant reason is nevertheless the option to organise and govern these services which are relevant for the local community. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

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  • Felix Höffler & Christina Schaefer & Ulf Papenfuß & Martin Rosenfeld & Gerd Landsberg, 2013. "Rekommunalisierung: Renaissance öffentlicher Unternehmen?," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 93(2), pages 71-86, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:93:y:2013:i:2:p:71-86
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-013-1489-1
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    Keywords

    H41; H42; L33;
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    JEL classification:

    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
    • L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out

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