Drink what you can pay for: Financing infrastructure in a fragmented water system
Drink what you can pay for: Financing infrastructure in a fragmented water system
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喝你能付得起的钱：为支离破碎的供水系统中的基础设施融资
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2018
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R. Greer
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Tyler A. Scott;Tima T. Moldogaziev;R. Greer
本文通过制度碎片化的透镜研究了休斯顿大都市区环境违法行为与水务基础设施投资之间的关系。特殊用途供水区是资本高度密集型的服务管辖区，这使得它们极其依赖地方财政能力。财政能力对于供水区应对业绩失败，特别是违反规章的能力也很重要。然而，资源基础在高度分散的休斯顿都会区的特殊用途水域之间分布不均匀。因此，虽然资本投资可能与财政能力有很大的协变，但并不是所有的供水区都有能力在出现问题时进行必要的基础设施投资。有两个主要的政策相关的调查结果，我们在文章中提供。相对较富裕地区的机构分散并不妨碍对与服务压力和违反监管规定有关的资本基础设施进行投资的能力。然而，在相对不太富裕的地区，这种能力有限，因为这些地区应对提供服务问题的财政能力有限。
The article investigates the relationship between environmental violations and water utility infrastructure investment in the Houston metropolitan area through a lens of institutional fragmentation. Special purpose water districts are highly capital-intensive service jurisdictions, which makes them extremely dependent on local fiscal capacity. Fiscal capacity is also important for a water district’s ability to respond to performance failures, particularly regulatory violations. Resource base, however, is unevenly distributed between special purpose water districts in the highly fragmented Houston metro area. Therefore, while capital investments may significantly covary with fiscal capacity, not all water districts are expected to be capable of making needed infrastructure investment when problems arise. There are two major policy-relevant findings that we offer in the article. Institutional fragmentation in relatively more affluent areas does not impede the ability to invest in capital infrastructure related to both service pressures and regulatory violations. However, such ability is limited in relatively less affluent areas, where the fiscal capacity to respond to service delivery problems is limited.