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Profit, productivity and price performance changes in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012
companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit … sample sizes are limited. -- Profit Decomposition ; Productivity ; Price Performance ; Panel Index Numbers ; Regulation …The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of regulation in the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687496
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Profit, Productivity and Price Performance Changes in the English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Companies
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, E. - 2012
companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales. We apply a panel index approach across WaSCs over time to decompose unit …The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of regulation in the financial performance of the Water and Sewerage …-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162825
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An investigation of productivity, profitability, and regulation in the Chilean water industry using stochastic frontier analysis
Molinos-Senante, María; Maziotis, Alexandros; … - In: Decision analytics journal 4 (2022), pp. 1-9
The firms’ performance assessment for regulation requires estimating profit change and its drivers. This study …. Using the stochastic frontier analysis, we compute the drivers of productivity change, such as technical change, returns to … factor productivity levels increased over time at 1.967% and 1.062% per annum, respectively. Technical change, gains in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013453632
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Business Models and Profitability of Energy Storage
Baumgarte, Felix - 2020
Storage technologies – such as batteries or hydrogen – are crucial for a transition towards a low-carbon economy as they complement intermittent wind and solar power generation without the emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Rapidly growing shares of these renewables, combined with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848580
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The Effect of Carbon Taxes on Agricultural Trade
Rivers, Nicholas; Schaufele, Brandon - 2015
This study evaluates the implications of an actual carbon tax on international trade in the agricultural sector. Applying uniformly to all fossil fuels combusted within its borders, the province of British Columbia unilaterally introduced a carbon tax on July 1, 2008. In 2012, the province...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154722
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Biodiversity Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity can be financed by i) pure private capital and ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247943
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Biodiversity Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - 2023
The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity can be financed by i) pure private capital and ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256670
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Regulatory Price Performance, Excess Cost Indexes and Profitability : How Effective is Price Cap Regulation in the Water Industry?
Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, E. - 2013
, productivity and price performance of the regulated Water and Sewerage companies (WaSCs) in England and Wales during the years 1991 …-2008. In order to better analyse the impact of regulation on WaSC performance, we decompose actual economic profits into … spatial multilateral Fisher productivity (TFP), the inverse of which is demonstrated to be a regulatory excess cost index that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159602
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Ėkonomičeskie ryčagi i usilenie ich ispolʹzovanija dlja povyšenija ėffektivnosti socialističeskogo proizvodstva
Tkačenko, I. E. (contributor) - 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000758592
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An analysis of efficiency and productivity banking performances in an emerging regulated financial market
Budd, Bruce Q.; Budd, Catherine R.; Wilson, Kenneth - In: International economics & finance journal : (IEFJ) 2 (2007) 1/2, pp. 67-92
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791272