@article{article_1045269, title={Impact of Privatisation on Refuse Collection: Review of Theoretical and Empirical Studies}, journal={Iğdır Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi}, pages={545–562}, year={2019}, author={Yılmaz, İbrahim}, keywords={Privatisation, complete contract, competition, refuse collection.}, abstract={Over the last few decades, there has been a considerable discussion on the issue of whether privatization achieves its main aims which might be stated as cost-saving and quality improvement. This paper aims to present the theoretical approaches that are in favor of privatization. Then analyze the existing empirical studies from refuse collection literature to acknowledge to what extense these theories are consistent. Paper concludes that although theoretical explanations are in favor of privatization, empirical evidence is ambiguous whether privatization enables municipalities to decrease cost.}, number={19}, publisher={Igdir University}