We innovate in the field of water companies' performance with an application of the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator (LPI) to the assessment of water companies' productivity growth. The advantage of our approach is that it takes into account both input...

The estimation of the value of carbon emissions has become a major research and policy topic since the establishment of the Kyoto Protocol. The shadow price of CO2 provides information about the marginal abatement cost of this pollutant. It is an essential element in guiding environmental policy...

Sanitation and wastewater treatment are essential for protecting human health and environmental sustainability. Treatment processes are not free of environmental impacts; consequently assessment of the environmental performance of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has gained interest in recent...

This paper analyses the efficiency of players in the Spanish Soccer League for the 2009/2010 season using a metafrontier version of data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology. It is possible to apply a metafrontier approach if separate frontiers can be identified for different groups in the...

La supremacía de unos pocos equipos sobre el resto de los participantes, es un factor común a las ligas europeas de futbol más conocidas. La española no es una excepción como demuestra el análisis que proponemos. Se analizan las clasificaciones de las últimas 10 temporadas, de la 2002-03...

This article looks at vertical and horizontal integration in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry, estimating the costs and benefits of breaking up monopolies. The results of the analysis suggest that the most cost effective organisational structure for water and sewage services...

This paper estimates the direct and indirect socio-economic impacts of the 2000 flood that took place in the Po river basin (Italy) using a combination of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and Spatial and Multi-Criteria Analysis. A risk map for the whole basin is generated as a function...

This paper investigates the determinants of profit change over the period 1991-2008 for the Water and Sewerage Companies (WaSCs) in the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry. We firstly apply an input oriented profit decomposition approach following the approach of De Witte & Saal...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of regulation in the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a...