PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Renzetti, Steven
AU  - Dupont, Diane P.
TI  - Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Municipal Water Suppliers: The Role of Environmental Factors
AID  - 10.3368/le.85.4.627
DP  - 2009 Nov 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 627--636
VI  - 85
IP  - 4
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/85/4/627.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/85/4/627.full
SO  - Land Econ2009 Nov 01; 85
AB  - This paper extends the multistage procedure set out by Fried, Schmidt, and Yaisawarng (1999) to examine the importance of environmental factors when assessing the technical efficiency of water agencies. However, following Simar and Wilson’s (2007) critique of multistage efficiency analyses, the paper uses a bootstrapping approach in order to have consistent inference. Data are from a cross-section of municipal water agencies in Ontario, Canada, during 1996. The main findings are that environmental factors explain some of the observed variation in efficiency scores and that water agencies’ relative efficiency scores are changed substantially after controlling for environmental factors. (JEL H42, Q25)