The effectiveness of price as a water conservation measure remains an open empirical issue and relevant policy question. We conduct a meta-regression analysis that summarizes 615 estimates of the price elasticity of residential water demand, from 124 econometric studies. Large-sample studies...

The start up problem in a network market refers to the necessity for the provider of the good exhibiting positive network externalities to find appropriate tools to make the network start. Rohlfs (1974) was the first to recognise the possible use by the provider of marketing policies in order to...