The Welfare Economics of Optional Water Metering
The Welfare Economics of Optional Water Metering
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可选水表的福利经济学
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2010
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Simon Cowan
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Simon Cowan
开发了一种适用于水行业的分散式计量决策模型。需求对价格越敏感，计量的社会效益越高。当只有小家庭应该有电表时，允许家庭选择是否有电表是有效的，但当监管机构不知道家庭特点，只有大家庭应该有电表时，这是行不通的。分析了英格兰和威尔士采用的免费提供电表的政策。
A model of decentralised metering decisions that applies to the water industry is developed. The social benefit of metering is higher the more sensitive demand is to the price. Allowing households to choose whether or not to have meters is efficient when only small households should have meters but does not work when the regulator does not know household characteristics and only larger households should have meters. The policy of requiring meters to be provided free, which has been adopted in England and Wales, is analysed.