Efficiency in the public and private French water utilities: prospects for benchmarking

Applied Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 556-572

  Lannier, Aude Le ^a   Porcher, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; public management; stochastic frontier analysis; technical efficiency; water utilities

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

FRANCE;

EID: 84889245565     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2013.857002     Document Type: Article

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