Are the Consumers Always Ready to Pay? A Quasi-Almost Ideal Demand System for the Italian Water Sector

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 465-481

  Di Cosmo, Valeria ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Demand analysis; Demand elasticity; Water

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEMAND ELASTICITIES; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; PERSONAL CARE; PRICING POLICY; SENIOR CITIZENS; SOUTHERN ITALY; WATER CONSUMPTION;

POTABLE WATER;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; PRICING POLICY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ITALY;

EID: 78751575444     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9709-6     Document Type: Article

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