Economies of vertical integration in the Japanese water supply industry

Jahrbuch fur Regionalwissenschaft

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-141

  Urakami, Takuya ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Economies of vertical integration; Translog cost function; Water supply

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; VERTICAL INTEGRATION; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 36249001624     PISSN: 01737600     EISSN: 16139836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10037-007-0015-6     Document Type: Article

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