Economists expect positive returns to investments in infrastructure. However a project with higher national returns … might have less favourable effects on a regional level than the alternative. Therefore new infrastructure should also be … proposes new approaches to evaluate infrastructure by a dynamic spatial econometric model that allows long-term predictions. We …

This discussion paper attempts the investigation of inefficiency with respect to water suppliers in rural areas of East … water suppliers was collected by a written survey in 2002/2003. The applied second order flexible functional form performs … water and sewage services as well as vertically integrated utilities are not confirmed by the results. The positive …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …

In the Czech Republic, water prices have been steadily increasing while water consumption has been decreasing during … the last decades. A great deal of literature is devoted to the price elasticity of water demand but to the best of our …-run price elasticities of water demand in the Czech Republic between years 2000 and 2011. We find that the water demand is …

When consumption of water and other utilities is measured collectively and payment for such services is equally shared … installation of individual meters affects water consumption. Using rich administrative data from the public water utility company … in Quito, Ecuador, it is estimated that water consumption decreases by about 8% as a result of the introduction of …

We present the first meta-analysis of the income elasticity of water demand that accounts for the effects of …

This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach … information concerning substitutability and the shadow price of water. The model is estimated, using linear programming approach …, on a sample of 92 firms over the three years. The results show that the average shadow price of water is rupees 7.21 per …

We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise … water utility service areas …