caa a22 4500 37893628X CHVBK 20180305123641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040920xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1538-0645.1232 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1538-0645.1232 Loehman Edna T. 1Purdue University, loehman@purdue.edu Cost Recovery, Efficiency, and Economic Organization for Water Utilities [Elektronische Daten] [Edna T. Loehman] This paper describes a new method of utility pricing - Variable Unit Pricing (VUP) - that results in both economic efficiency and cost recovery for a variety of supply situations faced by water utilities. The main advantage of VUP - compared to Increasing Block Rates - is that its parameters can be objectively determined from demand and cost information. The theoretical support for VUP is a welfare economics paradigm that integrates pricing with economic organization. VUP is shown to achieve social efficiency for a fixed-fee contractual arrangement between a profit-maximizing water utility and a public agency. Public involvement is required to express equity concerns, demand for public goods such as water quality and security, and to identify appropriate supply limits for conservation. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston H0 (Public Economics) nationallicence water nationallicence public utility nationallicence nonlinear pricing nationallicence cost recovery nationallicence privatization nationallicence investment nationallicence Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-09-20) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Loehman Edna T. 1Purdue University, loehman@purdue.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-09-20) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter