IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/feemie/12114.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Restructuring Italian Utility Markets: Household Distributional Effects

Author

Listed:
  • Miniaci, Raffaele
  • Scarpa, Carlo
  • Valbonesi, Paola

Abstract

Competition in public utility sectors has been encouraged in recent years throughout Europe. In this paper we try and analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods. The first step is to introduce a sensible measure of affordability of public utilities and to see how many households fall below a critical threshold. This issue is analysed stressing how climatic conditions dramatically affect households' expenditure and how the affordability of utility bills varies a lot from region to region. So far, utilities' reforms do not seem to have produced negative effects on the weaker group of households.

Suggested Citation

  • Miniaci, Raffaele & Scarpa, Carlo & Valbonesi, Paola, 2005. "Restructuring Italian Utility Markets: Household Distributional Effects," International Energy Markets Working Papers 12114, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:feemie:12114
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.12114
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12114/files/wp050134.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.12114?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Resource /Energy Economics and Policy;

    JEL classification:

    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • L97 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Utilities: General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:feemie:12114. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feemmit.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.