Il modello di Data Envelopment Analysis per la stima dell’efficienza nel settore idrico e alcuni risultati empirici in tema di privatizzazione

Journal title ECONOMIA E DIRITTO DEL TERZIARIO
Author/s Piercarlo Pietra
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/3 Language Italian
Pages 8 P. 443-450 File size 29 KB
DOI 10.3280/ED2014-003007
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The water sector is a natural monopoly. This potentially limits the efforts towards efficiency improvements. In many countries, research has been carried out to identify mechanisms to measure the efficiency of the water sector and to implement these methods. Moreover, many studies have analysed whether there is a tendency for private management of the water sector to encourage higher efficiency levels compared with public management. This paper looks at the most relevant empirical studies that have been carried out in relation to this issue in the main foreign countries.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis, efficiency valuation.

Jel codes: L 95G3.

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Piercarlo Pietra, Il modello di Data Envelopment Analysis per la stima dell’efficienza nel settore idrico e alcuni risultati empirici in tema di privatizzazione in "ECONOMIA E DIRITTO DEL TERZIARIO " 3/2014, pp 443-450, DOI: 10.3280/ED2014-003007