The aim of this study is to estimate both stochastic and mathematical programming cost functions and frontier studies with the ADERASA’s database. ADERASA is a Latin American association of water regulators, which has done a systematic effort on data collection. Econometric and DEA techniques...

The purpose of this paper is to study the existence of differences in costs between pension fund administrators (PFAs) through the estimation of an econometric cost frontier for Argentina. Like in other eleven Latin American, and some other Central Asian and Eastern Europe countries, the social...

During the last decade, Argentina has faced an extended process of reform of the Pension System. It had been implemented a mixed system with a private funds scheme (PFS) and a new public pay-as-you-go system. The PFS was based on personal contributions; it addressed the effect of demographic...

“High-power” regulatory regimes were adopted in most of the reformed electricity distribution sectors. In particular, in a price cap regime with a RPI-X rule, it is commonly used a benchmarking exercise based on efficiency frontier estimations to determine X factors. DEA is a widely used...

In this paper, it was made an exhaustive survey of the literature related with cost and production frontiers in the water and sanitation sector. The survey shed light in order to determine the variables to choose in the model to be estimated in a further empirical estimation developed for the...

During the 1990s, in most regions of the world, governments restructured their infrastructure sectors to facilitate some form of private participation in the operation and financing of the sector. These reforms, generally associated with other macroeconomic reforms which included the...

This paper offers a quantification of price differentials not explained by tariff policy and the assessment of efficiency costs burned on different economic agents involved in textile products trade between Argentina (exporter) and Brazil (domestic producer). Simulations are carried out to show...

A severe macroeconomic crisis resets economic sectors. This is so when the GDP growth rates move between great falls and important recoveries, and when relative prices vary importantly. The insurance sector in Argentina offers an interesting laboratory to explore with Luenberger Productivity...

The objective of this paper is to present advances in productivity measures through index numbers and indicators, as well as to provide an example centered in the Argentinean insurance sector in recent years. The methodologies to estimate productivity changes by means of Malmquist Indexes and...

In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our hypothesis is that extended coverage implies measurable results in terms of reduced infant mortality. Moreover, we suspect that with the same resources, ceteris paribus, different...