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  title info:
    title: Introducing Competition into the Piped Water Market
    sub title: A Theoretical Analysis of Common Carriage and Franchise Bidding
  name:
    name part: Meister, Urs.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 140 p. online resource.
  abstract: Water scarcity is not exclusively a concern of the poor. Developed countries are increasingly facing problems related to higher per capita consumption and pollution so that enhancing the efficiency of the water supply ranks among the main global challenges of the future. The necessary improvements are not only a matter of technical progress but also of institutional design. Using tools of modern industrial economics, Urs Meister examines the effects of privatisation and competition in the piped water industry. Considering the two main approaches for competition in an industry with natural monopoly character, common carriage (interconnection) and franchise bidding (auctions), he analyses costs, retail prices and investment. Such analysis shows that competition may be a valuable opportunity to improve the efficiency of water supply.
  table of contents: Demand and Supply — a Brief Overview -- Introducing Product-Market Competition in the Water Industry -- Do Welfare Maximising Water Utilities Maximise Welfare under Common Carriage? -- Enhancing efficiency of Water Supply — Product Market Competition versus Trade -- Franchise Bidding in the Water Industry — Auction Schemes and Investment Incentives -- Summary and Conclusions.
  note: by Urs Meister.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Markets
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Emerging Markets/Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  classification: HF5469.7-5481
  classification: HF1365
  classification: 381
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783835092310
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-9231-0
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