Elasticidades de la demanda de agua en Chile

Acuña, Guillermo (2017): Elasticidades de la demanda de agua en Chile.

Abstract

In this paper estimations of price and income elasticities of water demand in Chile are presented, with the aim of put them available to interested researchers and consultants. The estimated price-elasticity of demand is about -0.12, while the income-elasticity is 0.20. estimations for subsets of data are also presented, grouped by natural region, season of the year, water utility, and quintiles of income

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Elasticities of water demand in Chile
• Language: Spanish
• Keywords: Demanda de agua; elasticidades; Chile
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation > Q25 - Water

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