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Mixed Public-Private Enterprises in Europe: Economic Theory and an Empirical Analysis of Italian Water Utilities

Marra, Alessandro - European Economic Studies, College of Europe - 2006

analysis is that ownership allows the (public) owner to gather more information about the actual management of the firm …

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Regional Wage and Employment Responses to Market Potential in the EU

Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry - European Economic Studies, College of Europe - 2005

Recent theoretical work on economic geography emphasizes the interplay of transport costs and plant-level increasing returns. In these models, the spatial distribution of demand is a key determinant of economic outcomes. In one strand, it is argued that higher demand gives rise to a more than...

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Aviation liberalisation : what headwinds do we still face?

Lumbroso, Alain - In: Journal of air transport management 74 (2019), pp. 22-29

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Water as Power : American Experts, Infrastructure Finance and the Spread of Private Property

Sattar, Erum - 2018

This paper argues that the concept of water as a ‘resource' enables an understanding of the spread of American technocratic expertise as deployed in the Indus basin. This development knowledge at the start of the post-colonial moment replaced the vacating empire of the Raj, with the emergence...

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Does local public ownership matter for the efficiency of water utilities? Evidence from Italy

Duygun, Meryem; Pazzi, Silvia; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2014

This study explores the impact of ownership types on efficiency of Italian water utilities. Theories and evidence have … shown a puzzling relationship between ownership and performance. Moreover, a recent study argues that this relationship can … to the debate about the impact of ownership structure on efficiency by including the effect of size and geographical …

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Long-term debt in water utilities : does ownership matter? : evidence from West Virginia’s utilities

Erfanian, Elham; Chen, Jing; Hodges, Collin - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 1, pp. 56-60

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Measuring and comparing the efficiency of water utility companies: A data envelopment analysis approach

Romano, Giulia; Guerrini, Andrea - In: Utilities Policy 19 (2011) 3, pp. 202-209

This study provides an analysis of Italian water utilities to determine the effects on their efficiency of certain relevant variables that have been broadly discussed in the existing literature. We reviewed the annual financial statements of 43 Italian water utility companies and obtained other...

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The effects of ownership, board size and board composition on the performance of Italian water utilities

Romano, Giulia; Guerrini, Andrea - In: Utilities Policy 31 (2014) C, pp. 18-28

This article analyses the effects of ownership, board size and composition on the performance of 72 Italian water … utilities. Information about the utilities' 335 directors was collected. Our main findings indicate that private or mixed-ownership …

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Opportunities, challenges and results of the regionalization process in the Romanian water sector

Marin, Erika - In: Acta Universitatis Danubius / Oeconomica 9 (2013) 4, pp. 443-450

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Metrics and methods for comparing water utility rate structures

Honey-Rosés, Jordi; Pareja, Claudio - In: Water economics and policy 5 (2019) 2, pp. 1-31

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