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An Analysis of Inefficiency of Big Urban Water Utilities in LatinAmerica

Bonifaz, José Luis; Itakura, Reyk - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2014

This study uses a stochastic frontier parametrical approach to analyze the inefficiency of firms in the water industry between 1999 and 2010. For this purpose, an unbalanced panel of data from 12 firms from all over Latin America was used. One of the main findings of the study is that companies...

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The child health implications of privatizing africa's urban water supply

Kosec, Katrina - In: Journal of Health Economics 35 (2014) C, pp. 1-19

Can private sector participation (PSP) in the piped water sector improve child health? I use child-level data from 39 African countries during 1986–2010 to show that PSP decreases diarrhea among urban-dwelling, under-five children by 2.6 percentage points, or 16% of its mean prevalence....

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Workers' earnings in the UK before and after privatisation: a study of five industries

DESSY, Orietta; FLORIO, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2004

In this paper we offer new evidence on the impact of British privatisations on wages in five selected industries: gas, electricity, water supply, railways and air transport. For the above sectors we construct long time-series of different measures of labour earnings, spanning from 1970 to 2002,...

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Contract Renewals, Prices and Deprivatizations : The Case of Water in France

Mayol, Alexandre; Saussier, Stéphane - 2021

In this paper, we studied the influence of contract renewals on water prices in France. When studying French water contracts in force between 2008 and 2018, we found that contract renewals have little influence on the prices paid by consumers. However, at contract renewal times, the share of the...

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The ’Hidden Costs’ of Water Provision : New Evidence from the Relationship between Contracting-Out and Price in French Water Public Services

Porcher, Simon - 2019

In France, the management of public services such as water or sanitation can be done by the municipal council or contracted out to a private operator. This paper quantifies the impact of the choice of contracting out the management of water public services on price. It uses a unique dataset of...

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Efficiency and Equity in Two-Part Tariffs : The Case of Residential Water Rates

Porcher, Simon - 2014

As first noticed by Coase (1946), a standard result in utility regulation is that efficiency requires two-part tariffs … estimates that are consistent with previous results in the literature, efficiency costs represent around 8 million euros of …-existing distortion which should be considered when evaluating current taxes aimed at addressing external costs. Moreover, efficiency …

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International Water Law and Fresh Water Dispute Resolution : A Coasean Perspective

Meshel, Tamar; Yahya, Moin A. - 2021

International Water Law has developed a set of rules for resolving interstate fresh water disputes that govern both the substance of these disputes and the conduct of the disputing states. “Equitable and reasonable utilization” is commonly considered as the leading substantive rule, “no...

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Condemnation of Water and Water Rights in Kansas

Peck, John C.; Weatherby, Kent - 2014

Legislation in Kansas declares water rights to be property rights. The water resources in most parts of Kansas are fully appropriated – i.e., new water rights for water are generally unavailable from the state. To obtain water supplies in the future, entities will have to purchase existing...

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