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What Determines Efficiency? An Analysis of the Italian Water Sector
Bonacina, Monica - 2014
mean level of performance, in the period under investigation, efficiency improvements have been limited. Moreover, the … results demonstrate that both the ownership structure and politics do have an impact on the efficiency of the firms: in …
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Water policy and institutions in the Republic of Korea
Lee, Namsoo - 2019
This study reviews the water policies and institutions for water management in the Republic of Korea over a 50-year period during which the country developed from a war-torn nation into one of the 10 largest economies in the world. The Republic of Korea's water policy commenced in the form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012041752
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Water Services in Italy : Implementation of the Reform and Efficiency of Providers
Benvenuti, Michele - 2009
the performance of operators through a study of their financial indicators and a non-parametric efficiency analysis. The … risk-free interest rate. The non-parametric efficiency analysis does not reveal significant economies of scope and … highlights a certain degree of variability of technical efficiency scores. This suggests that there is room for efficiency gains …
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Notas sobre la Teoría de la empresa pública de servicios de infraestructura y su regulación
Rozas Balbontín, Patricio; Bonifaz, José Luis - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2014
Debido a las crisis fiscales y productivas que asolaron a los países de América Latina y del Caribe durante la década de 1980, se buscó la participación de agentes privados en los sectores de agua potable y saneamiento. Hasta esa década, el sector estaba regulado y administrado por el...
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Intangibili e dimensione sociale della performance nelle aziende di servizio pubblico
Badia, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2009
This paper aims to analyze the relevance of intangible assets, in particular linked to social re-sponsibility, with reference to performance measurement systems in local utilities companies. Other two aspects can be connected to the emerging role of intangibles for the performance measurement:...
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Welfare Effects of Access to Water Service in Cambodia
Horn, Theara - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2011
From data collected by questionnaire survey of three communes in the Kandal province of Cambodia, where public water supply remains inaccessible, this study estimates the demand function for drinking water and finds that the price elasticity is between -0.26 and -0.29. Based on this, and given...
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La corporate governance nei servizi pubblici locali a rilevanza economica: strumenti per la gestione del consenso sociale
Badia, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2010
company to reach its strategic aims, reconcile efficiency and effectiveness, verify (and demonstrate) social responsibility …
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Water, Health, and the Commodification Debate
Bond, Patrick - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 42 (2010) 4, pp. 445-464
Conflicts in the water sector are now well-known, and also increasingly researched by economists, particularly in relation to major ideological differences over state-run versus privatized municipal systems. A major dividing line is over how to access and sustain the financing required to expand...
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Hidden Value Transfers in Public Utilities
Kovvali, Aneil; Macey, Joshua - 2023
Many electric utilities in the United States own rate regulated and non-rate regulated subsidiaries. The rate regulated subsidiaries enjoy legal monopolies and a right to a return on their capital investments but are only allowed to charge regulatorily authorized rates. The non-rate regulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347323
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Water policy and institutions in the Republic of Korea
Lee, Namsoo - 2019
This study reviews the water policies and institutions for water management in the Republic of Korea over a 50-year period during which the country developed from a war-torn nation into one of the 10 largest economies in the world. The Republic of Korea's water policy commenced in the form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254967