Water tariff setting and its welfare implications: Evidence from cities in the People’s Republic of China

• Main Authors: Yi, Jiang, Calub, Renz Adrian T., Zheng, Xiaoting
• 格式: text
• 出版: Animo Repository 2019
• 主題: Water utilities—Rates—China; Water Resource Management
• 在線閱讀: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11007

We develop a framework to analyze urban water tariff setting and its welfare implications and apply it to a panel of cities in the People’s Republic of China in the 2000s. First, we find that peer cities’ water tariff levels have a significant influence on a city’s choice of tariffs. We use the peer...