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Dalhuisen, Jasper; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

basin areas may comprise inter alia: (1) increasing co-operation at the river basin scale, (2) establishment of a river …

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Price and Income Elasticities of Residential Water Demand: Why Empirical Estimates differ

Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Groot, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand.Information on the determinants of consumer demand is of pivotal importance for the efficiency and efficacy ofpublic and private policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water...

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The Economics of Transboundary River Management

Ansink, Erik; Houba, Harold - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

allows us to show how conflict and cooperation over transboundary water resources may occur. It also allows us to pay … specific attention to the efficiency, sustainability, and fairness of solutions to this model. We compare and contrast both …

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Sustainable Nations: What do Aggregate Indicators tell us?

Pillarisetti, J. Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2010, 12(1), 49 … compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the World Bank’s ‘Genuine Savings’ measure, the ‘Ecological Footprint …’ and the ‘Environmental Sustainability Index’. It is concluded that rankings of sustainable nations vary significantly …

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Mean and Bold?

Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

See also the article 'Mean and bold: on separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking water sector' 2010, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 61, 222-34. The Dutch drinking water sector experienced two drastic changes over the last 10 years. Firstly,...

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Do Firms sell forward for Strategic Reasons? An Application to the Wholesale Market for Natural Gas

Eijkel, Remco van; Moraga, Jose Luis - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Building on a model of the interaction of risk-averse frms that compete in forward and spot markets, we develop an empirical strategy to test whether oligopolistic frms use forward contracts for strategic motives, for risk-hedging, or for both. An increase in the number of players weakens the...

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Management Practices: Are Not For Profits Different?

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if...

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Efficiency Effects of Privatising Refuse Collection: Be careful and Alternatives present

Dijkgraaf, E.; Gradus, R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Dutch municipalities between 1998 and 2010. The modes we consider are private contracts, intermunicipal cooperation, public … municipal fixed effects are included. The cost advantage of intermunicipal cooperation is larger in this case than that of … and the mode duration. For private contracts, the duration effects lead to lower costs; for municipal cooperation and …

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Contracting out, an Empirical Study on Motives

Wassenaar, Mattheus; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...

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Independence Axioms for Water Allocation

Brink, Rene van den; Estevez-Fernandez, Arantza; Laan, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper led to the article with the same title in 'Social Choice and Welfare' (2014), 43, 173-194. We consider the problem of sharing water among agents located along a river. Each agent has quasi-linear preferences over river water and money, where the benefit of consuming an...

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