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 … that the steady decline in average price performance, gains in productivity and relatively stable economic profitability …

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 …

technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation and companies to identify the …

) 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 …

We review nonparametric estimation of efficiency and productivity, by which we mainly mean activity analysis, or data …

Firm-level idiosyncratic policy distortions lower aggregate productivity, especially if such distortions are correlated … with firm productivity. Many environmental policies, such as energy intensity standards, exhibit this correlation. In …

hours on the one hand, and productivity, employment, quality of life, and the environment, on the other. We adopt a binary …

regards wages and the negotiation between trade unions and employers over distribution of productivity gains and the ways to …