This paper aims to analyse the price regulation method and performance of the water industry in Slovenia. A stochastic cost frontier model is employed to estimate and decompose the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of water distribution utilities in the 1997-2003 period. The main goal is to...

This work draws on the analysis of price regulation of water services in Italy, the so-called Metodo Normalizzato, to examine the issues related to the definition of a regulatory mechanism when the costs of providing the service depend on exogenous variables which are geographically...

Getting prices right and allocating water efficiently will become increasingly important as demand for food and water increases and as water scarcity becomes more of a problem. Pricing water efficiently will help meet the increasing demand, but what is the best way to make pricing more...