Privately operated water utilities, municipal price negotiation, and estimation of residential water demand: The case of France

Land Economics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 68-85

  Nauges, Céline ^a   Thomas, Alban ^a  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ELASTICITY; PRICING POLICY; WATER DEMAND; WATER ECONOMICS;

FRANCE;

EID: 0034049702     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3147258     Document Type: Article

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