Urban water utilities are a typical case of a public service with regulated prices. This paper examines the costs of the service, which must be understood if rates are to be set and controlled on an appropriate basis. We adopt a highly practical approach. In the first place, we establish two...

Individual behaviour with respect to time has received the attention of economists since the beginnings of the nineteenth century and, against this background, the aim of this work is to review the literature on the economics of time preference from both the theoretical and applied points of...

Los aceites usados son un residuo peligroso del que pueden derivarse graves daños medioambientales si su gestión es inadecuada; al mismo tiempo, tienen un indudable valor económico, ya que conservan gran parte de los hidrocarburos que los lubricantes contenían originalmente. La gestión de los...

En este trabajo se analiza la evolución de la productividad total de los factores (PTF) y su influencia en el proceso de convergencia regional en el periodo 1964-1991. El punto de partida es el cálculo de índices de PTF, incluyendo como factor productivo el capital público. Utilizando...

The effectiveness of pricing policies depends on the price elasticity of consumption. It is well documented that residential demand for water is influenced by heterogeneity associated with differences in the size of the household and socioeconomic characteristics. In this paper, we focus on...

La necesidad de considerar el valor de bienes sin mercado en distintos contextos, ha llevado al uso de metodos de valoracion basados en preferencias. Estos metodos, a pesar del aporte de informacion que proporcionan, adolecen de ciertas dificultades reconocidas en la literatura economica, entre...

The main objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between individual time preference for health and money. To that end, we tested whether individuals discount their own health at the same rate as their own money and, similarly, whether they discount social health in the same terms...