The purpose of this paper is to study the existence of differences in costs between pension fund administrators (PFAs) through the estimation of an econometric cost frontier for Argentina. Like in other eleven Latin American, and some other Central Asian and Eastern Europe countries, the social...

During the last decade, Argentina has faced an extended process of reform of the Pension System. It had been implemented a mixed system with a private funds scheme (PFS) and a new public pay-as-you-go system. The PFS was based on personal contributions; it addressed the effect of demographic...

“High-power” regulatory regimes were adopted in most of the reformed electricity distribution sectors. In particular, in a price cap regime with a RPI-X rule, it is commonly used a benchmarking exercise based on efficiency frontier estimations to determine X factors. DEA is a widely used...

In this paper, it was made an exhaustive survey of the literature related with cost and production frontiers in the water and sanitation sector. The survey shed light in order to determine the variables to choose in the model to be estimated in a further empirical estimation developed for the...

This paper describes the procedures established by the present regulation for high-tension network expansions, studies its optimality and points its main problems. According to the present regulatory scheme, the decision to expand the high-tension network system is on the hands of the private...

During the 1990s, in most regions of the world, governments restructured their infrastructure sectors to facilitate some form of private participation in the operation and financing of the sector. These reforms, generally associated with other macroeconomic reforms which included the...

In the whole world there are strong discussions on how to yield a more equitable access and a more efficient provision. One issue linked to efficiency is the achievement of scale economies in the industry, and the optimal dimension of water and sanitation providers. Changes in the industrial...

The purpose of this paper is to assess comparative efficiency in water and sanitation sector in Brazil. We run a Sthocastic Frontier Analysis model for a panel of 127 providers, covering more than 70% of urban population of the country. We search and find an explanation for cost efficiency, and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to build performance indicators to assess efficiency for First Instance Federal Courts in Argentina and study the determinants of efficiency in Criminal Instruction Courts. Design/methodology/approach: The efficiency scores were determined using data...

In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our hypothesis is that extended coverage implies measurable results in terms of reduced infant mortality. Moreover, we suspect that with the same resources, ceteris paribus, different...