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Output quality and sources of profit change in the English and welsh water and sewerage companies

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2012

technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the effectiveness of regulation and companies to identify the …

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Profit, Productivity, Price and Quality Performance Changes in the English and Welsh Water and Sewerage Companies

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2013

The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of various profit drivers such as price changes, productivity changes and … the impact of exogenous factors such as drinking water and sewerage treatment quality on profitability, productivity and … productivity performance of the WaSCs, they have also contributed negatively to their price performance. Overall, after 2000 steady …

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A methodology to propose the X-factor in the regulated English and Welsh water And sewerage companies

Maziotis, Alexandros; Saal, David S.; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel - 2013

) over time to decompose unit-specific index number based productivity growth as a function of the productivity growth … potential productivity catch-up of laggard firms and an estimate of how the top performing company improved its productivity … results indicated that significant gains in productivity occurred after 2000, when Ofwat set tighter price cap reviews in …

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Price versus Quantities versus Indexed Quantities

Branger, Frédéric; Quirion, Philippe - 2014

We develop a stochastic model to rank different policies (tax, fixed cap and relative cap) according to their expected total social costs. Three types of uncertainties are taken into account: uncertainty about abatement costs, business-as-usual (BAU) emissions and future economic output (the two...

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Unintended consequences of "mandatory" flood insurance

Blickle, Kristian; Santos, João A. C. - 2022

complicated insurance mandates. Overall, our findings speak to the unintended consequences of (well-intentioned) regulation. They …

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Temperature, productivity, and income

Deschênes, Olivier - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)

worker productivity and economic output. These effects are more pronounced in poorer countries and in climate …

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The effect of extreme heat on economic growth: Evidence from Latin America

Hoffmann, Bridgett; Dueñas, Juliana; Goytia, Alejandra - 2024

Climate change is projected to increase the frequency and intensity of extremely hot days. We use a panel regression framework at the sub-national (i.e., region) level to identify the effect of extreme heat on economic growth in Latin America accounting for acclimation to the season and to the...

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Re-Considering the Origins of the Climate Emergency: War, Finance, and the State

Di Muzio, Tim; Dow, Matt - In: London Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences 23 (2023) 22, pp. 1-19

One of the most important and recurring debates in the field of International Political Economy and international affairs are the links between capitalism, fossil fuel energy and climate change. In these debates, the origins of our current climate emergency are rooted in how Britain became the...

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Greening thy neighbor: How the United States inflation reduction act drives climate finance globally

te Kaat, Daniel Marcel; Raabe, Alexander; Tian, Yuanjie - 2024

Industrial policies greening the economy aim to accelerate the transition to net zero. We show that the United States (US) Inflation Reduction Act improved the supply of climate finance globally. Using granular data on global investment funds, we identify a novel international spillover channel...

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Pricing GHG emissions in agriculture: Accounting for trade and fairness for effective climate policy

Ricci, Mattia; Pérez Domínguez, Ignacio; Hristov, Jordan - 2024

Although agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions, the sector remains out of scope for greenhouse gas (GHG) pricing policies. To align the future food system with the transition to net zero emissions, two key questions arise: To what extent can tax policies help achieving...

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