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A primer on the welfare effects of regulatory reforms in network industries
CERIANI, Lidia; FLORIO, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
Starting from an industry where production is provided by a public monopolist, we look at the effects on the consumers' surplus of a sequence of reforms in network industry. Using a simple comparative statics framework, we find indifference conditions in consumers' surplus between respectively...
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Liberalization and private sector involvement in the water industry: a review of the economic literature
Antonio, Massarutto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The theoretical and empirical literature on water supply and sewerage liberalization is reviewed in this paper in order …
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Winners and Losers from Utility Privatization in Argentina : Lessons from a General Equilibrium Model
Chisari, Omar; Estache, Antonio; Romero, Carlos - 2005
The economic rates of return for utility privatization projects in Argentina are very high, whether or not … most privatization exercises. And how serious a government is about the fair distribution of gains from reform is reflected … of the privatization that Argentina began in 1989 in gas, electricity, telecommunications, and water and sanitation …
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Privatization in the natural gas sector : a general equilibrium analysis
Delalibera, Bruno Ricardo; Serrano-Quintero, Rafael; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-27
account for post-privatization gains from a regional perspective.This paper evaluates the increase in efficiency necessary to … make the privatization of a natural gas localdistribution company (LDC) worthwhile in a state-level fiscal sense. We …
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Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Synergie - mögliche Kooperationen bei der Wasserver- und Entsorgung: Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Wasserversorgungsunternehm...
Ludin, Daniela; Rahmeyer, Fritz; Wörner, Daniela - 2001
Die Aufgabe der kommunalen Wasserversorgungsunternehmen besteht darin, die Verbraucher mit qualitativ hochwertigem Trinkwasser in ausreichender Menge zu versorgen. Auf der anderen Seite müssen die kommunalen Abwasserentsorgungsbetriebe das von den Grundstückseigentümern erzeugte Abwasser...
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Hybrid Capital Structures and the Governance of State-Owned Companies : The Case of SABESP
Mirandola, Carlos Mauricio - 2010
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The Sources of Public Ownership : Historical Evidence from the Gas Industry
Troesken, Werner - 1997
I develop and test three theories of public ownership: a small markets hypothesis; a commitment hypothesis; and a patronage hypothesis. The empirical analysis employs a cross section of 1,274 public and private gas companies operating in 1911. With these data, I find the following patterns: gas...
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Public-Private Partnerships : The Carrot and Stick Approach
Moszoro, Mariano - 2012
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An Analysis of Inefficiency of Big Urban Water Utilities in LatinAmerica
Bonifaz, José Luis; Itakura, Reyk - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2014
This study uses a stochastic frontier parametrical approach to analyze the inefficiency of firms in the water industry between 1999 and 2010. For this purpose, an unbalanced panel of data from 12 firms from all over Latin America was used. One of the main findings of the study is that companies...
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Nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft durch Synergie. - Moegliche Kooperationen bei der Wasserver- und Entsorgung
Ludin, Daniela; Rahmeyer, Fritz; Woerner, Daniela - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2001
The function of communal water supply utilities is to provide consumers with high quality drinking water in sufficient quantities. On the other hand communal wastewater disposal utilities have to dispose the wastewater. In addition to this water prices and wastewater charges shall also give...
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