The problem that we address in this paper stems from the trend to delegation in the water management field. It refers to the municipality's negotiating disadvantage in the face of cartelized water management firms that makes delegation, once undertaken, virtually irreversible. We show why the...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between natural gas consumption and economic growth of France.Design/methodology/approach: To analyze the relationship, an extended Cobb–Douglas production function is used. The auto-regressive distributive lag bounds testing...