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Mean and Bold? On Separating Merger Economies from Structural Efficiency Gains in the Drinking Water Sector

De Witte, K. - 2007

detect a significant efficiency enhancing effect of benchmarking, we find insignificant merger economies due to the absence … association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly …, merger activity arose. This paper develops a tailored nonparametric model to dissect and distinguish the effects on …

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Mean and bold? : on separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking water sector

De Witte, Kristof; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2007

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Consolidating the water industry : an analysis of the potential gains from horizontal integration in a conditional efficiency framework

Zschille, Michael - 2015

observations. Merger gains are decomposed into a technical efficiency effect, a harmony effect and a scale effect. The greatest … efficiency improvement potentials turn out to result from reducing individual inefficiencies while pure merger gains are found to …The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that …

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Consolidating the water industry : an analysis of the potential gains from horizontal integration in a conditional efficiency framework

Zschille, Michael - In: Journal of productivity analysis 44 (2015) 1, pp. 97-114

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Costs of nitrogen runoff for rural water utilities : a shadow cost approach

Mosheim, Roberto; Ribaudo, Marc O. - In: Land economics : applied research on environmental resources 93 (2017) 1, pp. 12-39

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Spatial effects of nutrient pollution on drinking water production

Mosheim, Roberto; Sickles, Robin C. - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 60 (2021) 6, pp. 2741-2764

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Benchmarking the economic and environmental performance of water utilities : a comparison of frontier techniques

Molinos-Senante, Maria; Maziotis, Alexandros; … - In: Benchmarking : an international journal 29 (2022) 10, pp. 3176-3193

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Mean and bold?

De Witte, Kristof; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2007

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Driving forces for consolidation or fragmentation of the US water utility industry: A cost function approach with endogenous output

Torres, Marcelo Oliveira de; Morrison, Catherine J. - In: Journal of urban economics 59 (2006) 1, pp. 104-120

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Cross-border mergers in European banking and bank efficiency

Vander Vennet, Rudi - In: Foreign direct investment in the real and financial …, (pp. 295-321). 2003

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