Issues related to service quality are crucial for water utility management and regulation. Omitting these aspects, especially when they are treated as exogenous, can lead to large biases in estimating cost functions as well as to misleading information concerning technology. In this article, we...

This paper provides a framework that aims at distinguishing the technological economies of vertical integration from the vertical economies resulting from market imperfections. To illustrate our analyze, we use consistent panel data econometric methods to estimate cost functions on a sample of...

In this paper, we provide an analysis of the water sector in France. Together with a description of the specificities of water delivery and the collection and treatment of waste waters, we highlight three crucial points to understand "the French water school"": the organization of the sector,...

This paper investigates the joint production of timber and biodiversity by non-industrial private forest owners using a micro-econometric household production model. The objective of the paper is to explain the relationships between harvest strategies, timber price and the observed diversity of...

The implementation of nature conservation policy in the EU is often based on contracts between public authorities and landowners. We model these contracts in the presence of adverse selection and moral hazard when the outcome is uncertain. The results show that agents, who have high probability...

La biodiversité en forêt est au coeur d’enjeux économiques et environnementaux. Elle a une valeur économique, révélée par les ménages et elle conditionne l’état écologique de la forêt. Des incitations à la préserver sont parfois nécessaires. Plus généralement, elle pose la...

Il existe un débat récurrent en France sur le choix d’organisation, de mode de gestion et de régulation des services d’eau. Ce sont des monopoles locaux qui peuvent être gérés directement par la commune ou délégués à un opérateur privé. L’analyse économétrique des coûts des...

Forest land use is often associated with the protection of water resources from contamination and the reduced cost of drinking water supply. This study attempted to measure the value of the forest on the quality of water resources from a contingent market, namely drinking water supply, by...