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DEA APPLICATION TO EVALUATE THE TECHNICAL AND ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY OF WATER PRICING POLICIES

Giannoccaro, Giacomo; Prosperi, Maurizio; Zanni, G. - 2008

improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregatethe technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

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Assessing a policy grab bag: federal water policy reform.

Weinberg, M. - 2002

This article examines the economic impacts of policy alternatives for addressing allocative inefficiencies among agricultural, urban, and environmental uses of federal water. The Central Valley Project Improvement Act, composed of multiple incentive-based and command-and-control policies, forms...

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Smart Mobility in the MENA Region

Selim, Tarek - 2024

This research uses mapped urbanization, PESTEL analysis, Smart City projects, and socioeconomic impacts to analyze the MENA region’s outlook on smart mobility. Countries in the MENA region are implementing large-scale smart mobility projects to combat modern urbanization challenges such as...

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Assessing the Technical Efficiency and Total Productivity of the Akwa Ibom Water Company Limited, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Ubi-Abai, Itoro - 2024

This study assessed the technical efficiency and total productivity of the Akwa Ibom Water Company Limited, Akwa Ibom … company; and utilized the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to carry out technical efficiency and productivity analysis on 20 …

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Common Ownership among Private Firms and Privatization Policies

Haraguchi, Junichi; Matsumura, Toshihiro - 2020

This study investigates the relationship between the optimal privatization policy and the degree of common ownership among private firms by formulating a mixed oligopoly model in which one public firm competes against private firms under common ownership. We find that depending on the private...

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Cournot-Bertrand competition in a unionized mixed duopoly

Kangsik, Choi - 2008

We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities by facing a union bargaining process. For the case of a unionized mixed duopoly, only public firm is able to choose a type of contract based on the degree of...

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Privatization, Government's Preference and Unionization Structure: A Mixed Oligopoly Approach

Kangsik, Choi - 2009

oligopolies, this study investigates the efficiency of privatization. The results show that (i) regardless of the government …

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Endogenous Timing with Government's Preference and Privatization

Kangsik, Choi - 2009

By introducing the government's preference for tax revenues into an extended game with observable delay, this study provides new insight into the trade-off between the government and the public firm's payoff in a government's optimal policy of privatization. The results show that: (i) regardless...

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Comparing Cournot and Bertrand Competition in a Unionized Mixed Duopoly

Choi, Kangsik - 2008

We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities by facing a union bargaining process. For the case of a unionized mixed duopoly, only the public firm is able to choose a type of contract irrespective of whether...

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La crisis económica actual, una visión desde la economía política

Sergio, Reuben - 2009

The paper criticizes the conception of value on behalf of the conventional economic theory, blaming it for the current economic school’s incapacity to explain the actual economic crisis and to offer an adequate perspective to settle a solution. It proposes an explanation based on the tendency...

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