; Productivity ; Index Numbers ; DEA ; Regulation ; Water and Sewerage Industry … technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation and companies to identify the …

sample sizes are limited. -- Profit Decomposition ; Productivity ; Price Performance ; Panel Index Numbers ; Regulation …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 …

sample sizes are extremely limited. -- X-factor ; productivity decomposition ; panel index numbers ; regulation ; water and …) 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 …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

The determinants of incentive regulation are a key issue in industrial policy. I study an asymmetric information model …