In this paper we econometrically analyze the impact of several economic, environmental and social determinants for the average per capita demand for water and sewage in about 600 water supply areas in Germany. Besides prices, income and household size, we also consider the effects of population...

Nach den Versorgungsbereichen Telekommunikation, Strom und Gas steht die Liberalisierung der Wasserwirtschaft auf der politischen Tagesordnung. Welche Besonderheiten sind bei dem Gut Wasser zu berücksichtigen? Welche Wettbewerbsform führt zu den besten Ergebnissen?

We study the strategic utilization of storage in imperfect electricity markets. We apply a game-theoretic Cournot model to the German power market and analyze different counterfactual and realistic cases of pumped hydro storage. Our main finding is that both storage utilization and...

This discussion paper attempts the investigation of inefficiency with respect to water suppliers in rural areas of East and West Germany. This is done by using a nonradial measure of input-specific allocative inefficiency based on the demand system derived from a flexible cost function for the...