interested in developing comparative performance measurement under regulation and setting appropriate regulated prices when … sample sizes are extremely limited. -- X-factor ; productivity decomposition ; panel index numbers ; regulation ; water and …

. Since publicly owned water utilities in Sweden are governed by a cost-of-service regulation, prices in neighboring …

Yardstick regulation requires the utilization of benchmarking, a valuable tool for improving the public service …

-2008. In order to better analyse the impact of regulation on WaSC performance, we decompose actual economic profits into … should be of great interest, not only to those researchers interested in evaluating the effectiveness of regulation, but also …