Steven Renzetti () (Department of Economics, Brock University) Joel Brueau () (Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan) Michel Villeneuve () (Environment Canada)
Additional information is available for the following
registered author(s):
Relatively little is known of the factors which might influence firms' water recirculation decisions. This paper estimates an econometric model that accounts for potential self-selection bias and considers two facets of firms' recirculation behaviour: first, the discrete decision of whether to recirculate and, second, the decision of how much to recirculate. The model is estimated by applying the Heckman two-stage estimation procedure to data from Environment Canada's Industrial Water Use Survey. In the first stage, long run factors such as relative water scarcity and production technologies are found to influence the decision whether to recirculate water. In the second stage, the imputed prices of intake water and water recirculation as well as the scale of operations are found to influence the choice of the optimal quantity of water to recirculate.
Download Info
To download:
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the
proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained
in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read
the IDEAS help
page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS
site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
Publisher Info
Paper provided by Brock University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
0902.
Find related papers by JEL classification: Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water Q21 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply (the Commons)
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
References listed on IDEAS Please report citation or reference errors to , or , if you are the registered author of the cited work, log in to your RePEc Author Service profile, click on "citations" and make appropriate adjustments.: