Self-serving altruistic domestic consumption arises when foreign consumption contributes to the domestic utility of consumption. This is particularly the case when consumption saturated economies with excess capacities vie to increase their employment and expand their foreign trade to maintain...

This paper addresses the economic efficiency of water production and distribution in a vertical supply chain consisting of a water-provider and a consumer (municipality). The inherent conflicts over stocks and supply costs that emerge among the parties in the water supply chain are modeled as a...