In this paper we analyse the affordability of water and energy for Italian households. We first document how the …

German water and sewerage sector. The issue rather is what kind of competition ought to be implemented. There are mainly …

English water companies (all privately owned and subject to identical government regulation) and ten Australian water …In the context of the world-wide trend towards the privatisation of water supplies, this article uses institutional … economics to examine the incentives for English and Australian water providers to implement strategies to reduce household water …

This paper examines why private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in water continues to be promoted despite poor … invariably compromise institutional solutions as Malaysia’s water sector reforms illustrate. …

The structure and regulation of the U.S. water industry is more complex than is often apparent and pricing practices … role of economic regulation in the water sector. … vary substantially. While not representative of the region or nation, a survey of the largest water systems in the wider …

The Scottish Water and sewerage market for non-household customers was opened to retail competition on 1st April 2008 …. This development, unique in the history of the British water and sewerage industry, was the culmination of a decade …

chapter presents a case study of the regulation of cooling water intake structures (CWIS) at existing power plants. The … and economic impacts. Suggestions for improvement are noted. As of the date of writing, the regulation is under review by …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the water sector in Latin American countries. We try to …. We also consider which model would be more fitting for the water sector production in this region. Our motivation is to … develop instruments to make benchmarking operative for regulatory actions that can reduce information asymmetry and increase …

station's production of electricity is constrained by the quantity of water available to it (capacity constraint) as well as … limitations of reservoir capacity (storage constraint). Due to the water flow, production from one power station affects the …

efficiency of water and sewerage companies in England and Wales using a mixture of data envelopment analysis and stochastic … price review signaled a tightening in regulation which is shown to have led to a significant reduction in technical … inefficiency. The new economic environment set by price-cap regulation acted to bring inputs closer to their cost-minimizing levels …