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Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Synergie - mögliche Kooperationen bei der Wasserver- und Entsorgung: Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Wasserversorgungsunternehm...
Ludin, Daniela; Rahmeyer, Fritz; Wörner, Daniela - 2001
innerhalb der Wasserversorgung und Abwasserentsorgung durch Kooperation Synergieeffekte realisiert werden können. Basierend auf …
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Water scarcity: Institutional change, water markets and privatization
Dosi, Cesare; Easter, William K. - 2000
A number of countries face water shortages because they need to make some basic changes in their water management. Policy options do exist. Most of them share the objective of treating water and water services as an economic good, by regulating private inefficient appropriation of open-access...
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Comparing price and non-price approaches to urban water conservation
Olmstead, Sheila M.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2008
Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including the rationing of water for particular uses and requirements for the installation of particular technologies. A significant shift has occurred in pollution control regulations toward market-based policies...
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Consumer preferences for water supply? An application of choice models to urban India
Anand, P. B. - 2001
This paper examines consumer preferences for the attributes of alternative sources of water supply in Chennai, based on a household survey where respondents were given the description of a set of options. Their decision to choose one of the options is examined using discrete choice models....
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Sovereign states and surging water: Brahmaputra river between China and India
Mahapatra, Sushanta Kumar; Ratha, Keshab Chandra - 2015
Brahmaputra river basin is one of the most vulnerable areas in the world subject to combined effects of glacier melt, extreme monsoon rainfall and sea level rise. Water is emerging as a new possible irritant between China and India. For India, Water of Brahmaputra constitutes a major lifeline...
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Water tariff setting and its welfare implications: Evidence from cities in the People's Republic of China
Jiang, Yi; Calub, Renz Adrian T.; Zheng, Xiaoting - 2019
We develop a framework to analyze urban water tariff setting and its welfare implications and apply it to a panel of cities in the People's Republic of China in the 2000s. First, we find that peer cities' water tariff levels have a significant influence on a city's choice of tariffs. We use the...
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Kaum Kostenvorteile durch Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse in der Trinkwasserversorgung
Zschille, Michael - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 20, pp. 455-460
Mit mehr als 6 000 Versorgungsunternehmen ist die Trinkwasserversorgung in Deutschland stark fragmentiert. Hierdurch stellen sich Fragen nach möglichen Kostenvorteilen einer Konsolidierung des Sektors und daraus resultierenden Preissenkungsmöglichkeiten für die VerbraucherInnen. In diesem...
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Cost structure and economies of scale in German water supply
Zschille, Michael - 2016
Potable water supply in Germany is highly fragmented. A consolidation of the industry could, therefore, lead to lower cost of water supply and price savings for the customers. In this paper we estimate a total cost function for potable water supply based on a unique sample of German water...
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The performance of German water utilities: A (semi)-parametric analysis
Zschille, Michael; Walter, Matthias - 2011
Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly resulting from structural differences beyond the control of firms' management, but also from inefficiencies. In this article we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier...
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Die Ökonomie der (ländlichen) Wasserversorgung
Sauer, Johannes - 2004
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert die optimale Organisation der Wasserversorgung unter Berücksichtigung der …-rische Überprüfung am Beispiel der Wasserversorgung beispielhaft modelliert. Es zeigt sich, dass empirisch fundierte Organisationsmodelle … Restruktu-rierung der Wasserversorgung in ländlichen Regionen könnte das sog. 'Pool-Modell' eine Al-ternative zur derzeitigen …
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