Conservation feebates: A combination of fees and rebates - "feebates" - offers the economic efficiency of marginal cost pricing but keeps revenues equal to costs

Journal / American Water Works Association

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-78

  Collinge, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; FEES AND CHARGES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ADMINISTRATIVE COST; DISTRIBUTIONAL EQUITY; FEEBATES; MUNICIPAL WATER RATES; PRICING POLICIES; REVENUE NEUTRALITY; WATER CRISIS; WATER USE REGULATION;

UTILITY RATES;

EID: 0029776526     PISSN: 0003150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1996.tb06486.x     Document Type: Article

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