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Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs

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  • Germà Bel
  • Alejandro Belerdas-Castro

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With the objective of expanding fire protection services to cover sparsely populated areas, an important reform has been implemented in the region of Galicia (Spain) over the two last decades, involving cooperation at county level and provincial level for service provision, and privatization of the service production. This article analyses that reform, and empirically studies whether privatization and cooperation have had any significant effect on costs incurred by the government for fire service provision. Our results suggest that cooperation is an efficient tool for expanding the service. However, we do not find a significant relationship between privatization and costs.

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  • Germà Bel & Alejandro Belerdas-Castro, 2022. "Provision and production reform of urban fire services: privatization, cooperation and costs," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(9), pages 1331-1354, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:24:y:2022:i:9:p:1331-1354
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2021.1886317
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    1. Germà Bel & Thomas Elston, 2023. ""Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery"," IREA Working Papers 202311, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Oct 2023.

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