resulting products and wastes. One method of measuring resource use efficiency is through the analysis of urban metabolism. It …

used to study efficiency and productivity, such as the average labour cost per employee and the Km of network per user. The … econometric analysis on efficiency is conducted by using the SURE method in the estimate of a TransLog variable cost function. The …

, we decompose productivity growth into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual … productivity growth averaged 1.04 percent across all utilities and was largely attributable to efficiency gain, roughly equally … split between pure technical efficiency and gains from scale. As in many other highly regulated Australian industries …

technical efficiency of 177 decision making units in the French water supply sector in 2009. Water utilities can be directly …

This paper provides a 'back-of-the-envelope' assessment of the efficiency effects of the reforms of the water sector in … regulatory regimes which require estimates of economic efficiency changes, none have actually issued any estimate yet. This paper … provides upper bounds estimates of efficiency gains achieved for 4 operators. The paper concludes with a discussion of the …

The analysis of efficiency in the management of urban water services offers valuable information both for the managers …

This study presents an empirical analysis of the cost efficiency of a sample of Swiss multi-utilities operating in the … models in the measurement of the level of efficiency for multi-utility companies. These models are estimated for a sample of …

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

the efficiency of local public production. To check the theoretical results empirically, a two-stage data envelopment … degree of municipal control. The results of the OLS- and Tobit regression indicate an efficiency-enhancing effect of …