Issues on service quality are crucial for water utility management and regulation. Omitting these aspects can lead to possible bias in estimating the efficiency of services. We integrate in a Translog cost function variables proxying this multi-dimensionality. Empirical results show that taking...

The renewal of franchise bidding for natural monopolies is often considered to be insufficiently competitive. We hypothesize that this may be due to the fact that the incumbent operator knows the existing network better than his competitors. This type of private information creates what is...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the pricing of French water utilities. An econometric model describing both water supply and demand is specified and estimated on utilities located in the Bordeaux area. Based on the estimated technology and demand parameters, we simulate marginal-cost...

La question de la qualité des prestations offertes aux usagers est essentielle dans la gestion et la régulation des services d’alimentation en eau potable. Omettre ces aspects peut introduire des biais lors de l’estimation de l’efficacité des services. Nous intégrons donc des variables...

La question de la qualité des prestations offertes aux usagers est essentielle dans la gestion et la régulation des services d’alimentation en eau potable. Omettre ces aspects peut introduire des biais lors de l’estimation de l’efficacité des services. Nous intégrons donc des variables...

We consider the relationship between a localcommunity and a private operator in charge ofthe water utility. An important feature of themodel is the possibility of water networklosses that are costly to the operator. Wecompute the first-best and asymmetricinformation solutions to the optimal...