This analysis utilises a model of production under risk estimated on Finnish farm-level data to measure farmers’ risk attitudes in a changing policy environment. We find evidence of heterogeneous risk preferences among farmers, as well as notable changes over time in farmers’...

Cet article propose une évaluation des effets de la délégation des services locaux de l’eau potable en France sur le niveau des prix. On utilise pour cela une méthode d’analyse, dite « des effets de traitement » sur un échantillon de 3.782 communes françaises. Les résultats...

We study water demand among non-tap households in three cities in El Salvador and in marginal barrios in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, using data from identical household studies in the four cities. We estimate water demand functions separately for El Salvador and Tegucigalpa, using a two-step...

On propose dans cet article de mesurer, par une étude économétrique appropriée, l’impact des facteurs environnementaux, socioéconomiques et culturels sur la décision des ménages de boire (ou non) l’eau du robinet. L’originalité de notre approche réside d’une part, dans...

Using panel data, we estimate measures of density, scale and scope economies in four countries that differ substantially in their levels of economic development and in their piped water and sewerage coverage: Brazil, Moldova, Romania and Vietnam.We find evidence of economies of scale inMoldova,...

Using survey data of around 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the driving factors of household adoption of water-efficient equipment by estimating Probit models of a household's probability to invest in such equipment. The results indicate that environmental attitudes and...

We estimate hurdle rates for firms’ investments in pollution abatement technology, using ex post data. The method is based on a structural option value model where the future price of polluting fuel is themajor source of uncertainty facing the firm. The empirical procedure is illustrated using...

In many countries water supply is a service that is seriously underpriced, especially for residential consumers. This has led to a call for setting cost recovery policies to ensure that the tariffs charged for water supply cover the full cost of service provision. Identification of factors...

(..) le premier objectif de ce chapitre est d’apprécier s’il est possible, sur la base de la revue de la littérature, de dégager des enseignements généraux quant à la rentabilité comparée de l’AB versus de l’AC. Le second objectif est d’analyser les facteurs qui influencent...