Household demand and welfare: implications of water pricing in Cyprus

Soteroula Hajispyrou, Phoebe Koundouri () and Panos Pashardes

Environment and Development Economics, 2002, vol. 7, issue 4, 659-685

Abstract: This paper considers a model of household demand for water in a theoretical framework consistent with fundamental principles of consumer behaviour. It applies this model to individual household data to estimate the price and income elasticities of residential demand for water in Cyprus and evaluate the welfare effects associated with changes in the water pricing system. We find that the current regionally heterogeneous, increasing block-pricing system introduces gross price distortions that are not justified on efficiency grounds. A shift towards uniform marginal cost pricing will eliminate the deadweight loss of the current system. However, its benefits will be distributed in favour of the better-off households.

Date: 2002
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