Price impact on urban residential water demand: A dynamic panel data approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Arbués, Fernando ^a   Barberán, Ramón ^a   Villanúa, Inmaculada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demand estimation; Dynamic panel data; Residential water demand; Water pricing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA REDUCTION;

DATA ESTIMATION; ECONOMETRIC MODEL; PRICING; WATER DEMAND;

WATER;

ECONOMIC POLICY; PRICING POLICY; URBAN POPULATION; WATER DEMAND; WATER PLANNING;

EID: 10944261975     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003092     Document Type: Article

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