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; Productivity ; Index Numbers ; DEA ; Regulation ; Water and Sewerage Industry … technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation and companies to identify the …
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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 …-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth …
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sample sizes are extremely limited. -- X-factor ; productivity decomposition ; panel index numbers ; regulation ; water and …) over time to decompose unit-specific index number based productivity growth as a function of the productivity growth … potential productivity catch-up of laggard firms and an estimate of how the top performing company improved its productivity …
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manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and …
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The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of various profit drivers such as price changes, productivity changes and … the impact of exogenous factors such as drinking water and sewerage treatment quality on profitability, productivity and … productivity performance of the WaSCs, they have also contributed negatively to their price performance. Overall, after 2000 steady …
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We develop a stochastic model to rank different policies (tax, fixed cap and relative cap) according to their expected total social costs. Three types of uncertainties are taken into account: uncertainty about abatement costs, business-as-usual (BAU) emissions and future economic output (the two...
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complicated insurance mandates. Overall, our findings speak to the unintended consequences of (well-intentioned) regulation. They …
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assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of …
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This paper describes the main features of a model developed for fore-casting economic developments, energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in the EU area and Finland as well as for simulating the economic impacts of EU climate policy. Climate policy analysis necessitates a model of the whole...
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Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects –so-called rebound effects- compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...
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