Investments in Water Networks: A Normative Analysis of Local Public Utilities
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Keywords
price-cap regulation; mixed firms; partial privatization; water networks; inelastic demand; natural monopoly;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
- L32 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2015-03-22 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-NET-2015-03-22 (Network Economics)
- NEP-REG-2015-03-22 (Regulation)
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