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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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Local Government Control and Efficiency of the Water Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Water Suppliers in East Germany
Haug, Peter - 2007
The paper deals with the effects of local governments' interference with business affairs of publicly owned utilities. A partial model is presented to illustrate the consequences of "democratic control" for the public managers' effort and the efficiency of local public production. To check the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269922
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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
Hintergrund einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft den Verbrauchern finanzielle Anreize bieten, Wasser zu sparen. Das innerhalb der …, um mehr Effizienz und Effektivität im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft zu erreichen. Die Kooperation erfolgt … dabei freiwillig zwischen den agierenden Einheiten in der Wasserwirtschaft und zwar unabhängig von deren Größe oder …
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The Impact of Institutional Frameworks on Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation: The case of the management contract for water and wastewater services in the...
Steiner, Sylvia M. - 2008
This research examines the impact of institutional frameworks on the performance of a private sector participation (PSP) arrangement in the water sector. The research takes place within the context of a development debate and practice, which identifies water as a key poverty issue in a...
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Sind die Preise für Wasserdienstleistungen der Ver- und Entsorgung in Deutschland wirklich kostendeckend?
Gawel, Erik - 2012
Art. 9 der europäischen Wasserrahmenrichtlinie trägt den Mitgliedsstaaten auf, bis 2010 die nationalen Anforderungen an die Entgelte für Wasserdienstleistungen am Prinzip der Kosten-deckung einschließlich Umwelt- und Ressourcenkosten auszurichten, um effiziente Anreize für die Nutzung...
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On the conjugacy of off-line and on-line Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers
Dufays, Arnaud - 2014
Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are widely used for filtering purposes of non-linear economic or financial models. Nevertheless the SMC scope encompasses wider applications such as estimating static model parameters so much that it is becoming a serious alternative to Markov- Chain...
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Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregon’s Deepwater Trawl Fishery
Tomberlin, David; Holloway, Garth - 2007
In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has...
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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...
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Good and bad institutions: Is the debate over? ; cross-country firm-level evidence from the textile industry
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2011
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...
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A stochastic frontier analysis of technical efficiency in smallholder maize production in Zimbabwe: The post-fast-track land reform outlook
Mango, Nelson; Makate, Clifton; Hanyani-Mlambo, Benjamin; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-14
This article analyses the technical efficiency of maize production in Zimbabwe's smallholder farming communities following the fast-track land reform of the year 2000 with a view of highlighting key entry points for policy. Using a randomly selected sample of 522 smallholder maize producers, a...
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