Allocative efficiency of rural water supply – a globally flexible SGM cost frontier

Sauer, Johannes; Frohberg, Klaus

doi:10.1007/s11123-006-0024-4

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“…Using cross-sectional data on 2 different groups of production units we are interested in the relative technical efficiency of the two groups and the effects of imposing functional regularity. 18 We use a simple model based on KUMBHAKAR (1989) and SAUER/FROHBERG (2005) and compare the estimation outcome for different functional specifications. The production structure of a representative sample of producers is therefore assumed to be described by:…”

Section: Testing Flexible Functional Forms By a Priori Impositionmentioning

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Economic Theory and Econometric Practice: Parametric Efficiency Analysis

Sauer¹

2006

Empirical Economics

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Section: Testing Flexible Functional Forms By a Priori Impositionmentioning

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Sauer¹

2006

Empirical Economics

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“…First of all, different authors (see, e.g., Clagget 1994; Ashton 2000; Garcia and Thomas 2001;Sauer and Frohberg 2007) find empirical evidence for economies of scale in the water sector, which supports the "verticalization" of the water companies by linking the distribution sector to water sales.…”

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Are the Consumers Always Ready to Pay? A Quasi-Almost Ideal Demand System for the Italian Water Sector

Cosmo¹

2010

Water Resour Manage

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Although drinking water amounts to 1.03% of the total water available daily for Italian consumers, this service is not easily replaced with other goods. Water is a basic need, and its consumption should be ensured for everyone. Yet the scarcity of this resource implies that any loss should be strongly discouraged. These countervailing incentives regarding water consumption should be considered by the regulator when determining the optimal final tariff. I estimate a complete quasialmost ideal demand system using Italian households data from 1999 to 2005 in order to verify the effects-on different types of Italian consumers-of a 1% rise in water tariffs. First, the results demonstrate that the mean of water elasticity (with respect to price and income) for Italian consumers is aligned with consumers in other European countries. Second, the paper establishes that a rise in the water tariff leads to a small contraction in expenditures on personal care and non essential goods. Finally, this paper shows that a change in the water tariff affects senior citizens and the population of southern Italy more than other consumer types. The regulator should consider all these effects when determining the final pricing policy.Keywords Water · Demand elasticity · Demand analysis I thank Silvia Tiezzi for her valuable comments and suggestions and the University of Siena to kindly provide me the data on Italian consumption. I also thank Pierpaolo Pierani for helpful comments and ISTAT that gives me the data on Italian water prices. All errors are of course mine.

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“…From the late-1990s onwards, academic research into performance measurement of water utilities extended beyond the United States and United Kingdom. Analysis of water utilities was conducted in countries such as Korea (Kim & Lee, 1998), Canada (Renzetti, 1999), Italy (Fabbri & Fraquelli, 2000;Fraquelli & Giandrone, 2003), France (Garcia & Thomas, 2001), Japan (Mizutani & Urakami, 2001), Peru (Corton, 2003), Germany (Sauer, 2005;Sauer & Frohberg, 2007), Portugal (Martins, Fortunato, & Coelho, 2006), and Brazil (Nauges & van den Berg, 2007). Abbott and Cohen (2009) provide an extensive list of early international literature.…”

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Performance measurement in Australian water utilities. Current state and future directions

Akimov

Simshauser

2019

Aust J Public Adm

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Ensuring universal and affordable water supply is a central objective of government. An efficient water supply sector plays a primary role in ensuring this objective is met. Scale economies and capital‐intensive immobile assets means monopoly emerges as the dominant organizational form, and when combined with an essential character, a strong case exists for economic and technical regulation. Yet diversity in water service provider scale means economic regulation, which is costly, is not always viable. A comprehensive performance monitoring and reporting regime for water service providers is thus crucial. It is crucial for oversight of unregulated entities, and for regulated entities in generating competition by comparison. In this article, we undertake an expansive literature review and summarize approaches to performance measurement by the water industry. Academic literature reveals researchers have centered their approach using comprehensive methods such as data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. With the exception of the Victorian Essential Services Commission, the Australian Industry persists with partial indicators. Given water and sewerage price increases of more than 100% in real terms from 2005 to 2014, we find a strong case for implementing advanced methods to address the task of providing a holistic picture of utility performance.

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Allocative efficiency of rural water supply – a globally flexible SGM cost frontier

Cited by 25 publications

References 15 publications

Economic Theory and Econometric Practice: Parametric Efficiency Analysis

Economic Theory and Econometric Practice: Parametric Efficiency Analysis

Are the Consumers Always Ready to Pay? A Quasi-Almost Ideal Demand System for the Italian Water Sector

Performance measurement in Australian water utilities. Current state and future directions

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