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Welfare Implications of Water Shortages : Higher Prices or Desalination

Saglam, Yigit - 2013

In this paper, I evaluate the welfare implications of shortages in renewable resources, and investigate the effects of cross-subsidization on these shortages. I set up a stochastic dynamic programming model in which a benevolent central planner allocates the resource for multiple user-groups...

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Regulation of the Water and Energy Complex of Central Asia

Vinokurov, Evgeny; Ahunbaev, Arman; Usmanov, Nursultan; … - 2023

The goal of this report is to propose comprehensive solutions for the regulation of the water and energy complex of … change. It offers a detailed analysis of the evolution of various forms of regulation of the water and energy complex of … Central Asia, from the Soviet period to the present day, reviews the international experience in water basin regulation …

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On the impact of productive efficiency and quality of a regulated local public utility upon final goods prices and consumer's welfare

Petretto, Alessandro - In: Giornale degli economisti e annali di economia 68 (2009) 3, pp. 311-339

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Household Water Savings and Response to Dynamic Incentives Under Nonlinear Pricing

Li, Li; Jeuland, Marc - 2022

We study the response of residential water demand to nonlinear prices by exploiting a natural experiment arising from a water pricing reform in a major Chinese city. The reform introduced an unconventional Increasing Block Tariff featuring prices set according to annual cumulative consumption...

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Inattention vs switching costs : an analysis of consumers' inaction in choosing a water tariff

Heiss, Florian; Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2021

This paper studies consumers' choice between two different water tariffs. We document a large inaction in a novel setting where customers face a binary decision and receive simple, detailed and personalized information about the financial savings they would obtain if they were to switch water...

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Local government control and efficiency of the water industry : an empirical analysis of water suppliers in East Germany

Haug, Peter (contributor) - 2007

The paper deals with the effects of local governments’ interference with business affairs of publicly owned utilities. A partial model is presented to illustrate the consequences of democratic controlʺ for the public managers’ effort and the efficiency of local public production. To check...

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Water Trading in the Context of Urban Development

Kiedrowski, Tom - 2014

environments. Regulation must not stand in the way …

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The Results of Modernizing Network Industries : The Case of Urban Water Services in Europe

Bolognesi, Thomas - 2018

in the development of UWSEs re-regulation explains the relatively gloomy outlook …

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Economies of Scale and Scope in Australian Urban Water Utilities

Worthington, Andrew C.; Higgs, Helen - 2014

This paper estimates economies of scale and scope for 55 major Australian urban utilities over the period 2005/06 to 2008/09. The models used to specify operating and capital costs as a function of chemical and microbiological compliance, water losses, water quality and service, water main...

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Efficiency, Technology, and Productivity Change in Australian Urban Water Utilities

Worthington, Andrew C. - 2014

In this paper, we investigate productivity growth in 55 major Australian urban water utilities using nonparametric frontier techniques over the period 2005/06 to 2008/09. The five outputs included in the analysis are chemical and microbiological compliance, and the inverses of real loses per...

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