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Profit, Productivity and Price Performance Changes in The English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit …The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of regulation in the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage …-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603774
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Profit, Productivity, Price and Quality Performance Changes in the English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of various profit drivers such as price changes, productivity changes and … the impact of exogenous factors such as drinking water and sewerage treatment quality on profitability, productivity and … productivity performance of the WaSCs, they have also contributed negatively to their price performance. Overall, after 2000 steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610792
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Output Quality and Sources of Profit Change in the English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation and companies to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603769
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A Methodology to Propose the X-Factor in the Regulated English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
) over time to decompose unit-specific index number based productivity growth as a function of the productivity growth … potential productivity catch-up of laggard firms and an estimate of how the top performing company improved its productivity … results indicated that significant gains in productivity occurred after 2000, when Ofwat set tighter price cap reviews in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610791
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Price versus Quantities versus Indexed Quantities
Branger, Frédéric; Quirion, Philippe - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
We develop a stochastic model to rank different policies (tax, fixed cap and relative cap) according to their expected total social costs. Three types of uncertainties are taken into account: uncertainty about abatement costs, business-as-usual (BAU) emissions and future economic output (the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941064
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The Future Costs of Nuclear Power Using Multiple Expert Elicitations: Effects of RD&D and Elicitation Design
Anadon, Laura Diaz; Nemet, Gregory; Verdolini, Elena - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Characterizing the anticipated performance of energy technologies to inform policy decisions increasingly relies on expert elicitation. Knowledge about how elicitation design factors impact the probabilistic estimates emerging from these studies is however scarce. We focus on nuclear power, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904930
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An Overview of Urban Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in Central America & the Caribbean Region
Gencer, Ebru A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Central America and the Caribbean is one of the most hazard-prone regions in the world. In addition, the region is heavily affected by poverty, unemployment, critical management of natural resources, and urban conglomeration in capital cities, especially in the Small Island Developing States,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904933
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Going Forward by Looking Backwards on the Environmental Kuznets Curve: an Analysis of CFCs, CO2 and the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols
Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
The success of the Montreal Protocol in comparison to the stagnation seen in negotiations surrounding the Kyoto Protocol highlights the importance of a supportive industry group, pre-existing legislation and commitment by a lead nation, affordable and available substitutes, as well as acceptance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941055
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Assessing Direct and Indirect Economic Impacts of a Flood Event Through the Integration of Spatial and Computable General Equilibrium Modelling
Carrera, Lorenzo; Standardi, Gabriele; Bosello, Francesco; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
In this paper we developed and tested an integrated methodology for assessing direct and indirect economic impacts of flooding. The methodology combines a spatial analysis of damage to physical stocks with a general economic equilibrium approach using a regionally-calibrated (to Italy) version...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941060
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Delineating Spring Recharge Areas in a Fractured Sandstone Aquifer (Luxembourg) Based on Pesticide Mass Balance
Farlin, Julien; Drouet, Laurent; Gallé, T.; Pittois, D.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
A simple method to delineate the recharge areas of a series of springs draining a fractured aquifer is presented. Instead of solving the flow and transport equations, the delineation is reformulated as a mass balance problem assigning arable land in proportion to the pesticide mass discharged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941062