Joel Byrnes

The relative economic efficiency of urban water utilities in regional New South Wales and Victoria

Joel Byrnes, Lin Crase, Brian Dollery et al. · Resource and Energy Economics · 2009 · 171 citations

Water Demand, Engineering, Water Resources +8

Local government failure: Why does Australian local government experience permanent financial austerity?

Brian Dollery, Lin Crase, Joel Byrnes · Australian Journal of Political Science · 2006 · 69 citations

Fiscal Issue, Local Government Systems, Social Sciences +18

Australian Local Government Amalgamation: A Conceptual Analysis of Population Size and Scale Economies in Municipal Service Provision

Brian Dollery, Joel Byrnes, Lin Crase · Australasian journal of regional studies · 2008 · 52 citations

Local Governance, Population Size, Public Policy +14

Is Bigger Better? Local Government Amalgamation and the South Australian Rising to the Challenge Inquiry**The authors would like to thank an anonymous referee for helpful advice on an earlier draft of the paper.

Brian Dollery, Joel Byrnes, Lin Crase · Economic Analysis and Policy · 2007 · 47 citations

Bigger Better, Local Governance, Public Policy +9

Shared Services in Australian Local Government: Rationale, Alternative Models and Empirical Evidence

Brian Dollery, Alexandr Akimov, Joel Byrnes · Australian Journal of Public Administration · 2009 · 45 citations

Local Economic Development, Policy Analysis, Public-private Partnership +17