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; 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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This article challenges the conventional result that a tighter environmental tax has no long-run effect on human capital accumulation in the presence of pollution arising from final output production. It demonstrates that the technology used in the abatement sector determines the existence and...
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Modellers have examined a wide array of ideal-world scenarios for regulation of greenhouse gases. In this ideal world … analysts have given inordinate attention to which countries participate in regulation—what we call “variable geometry … power sector. Indeed, some forms of trade regulation might decrease the financial flows associated to a carbon policy thus …
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This note shows that the assumptions about the abatement technology modify the impact of the environmental taxation (both the size and the “direction”) on the long-run growth driven by human capital accumulation à la Lucas (1988), when the source of pollution is private consumption and...
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Local cosmologies and traditional perceptions of the natural environment, especially forests, have been a major influence in the management of the natural resources and biodiversity amongst rural communities in the transitional zone of Ghana. Sacred groves, which are typical outputs of...
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The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all proposals; in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis...
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