A long-run analysis of residential water consumption

Ben Zaied Younes ()

Economics Bulletin, 2013, vol. 33, issue 1, 536-544

Abstract: The main originality of this paper is to empirically investigate the long-run relationship between average regional water consumption and its determinants. To do so, we use quarterly non-stationary panel data covering the six Tunisian regions for the period 1980.1 to 2007.4 and a breakdown into two consumption blocks (a lower and an upper block). We apply the panel cointegration tests and estimation developed by Pedroni (1999). We obtain a long-run price elasticity for the upper block that is greater than the corresponding one for the lower block. Our results show that water tariffs can play an active role in conserving the precious water resource in countries characterized by scarcity, volatility and low water quality as is the case with Tunisia.

Keywords: Water consumption; long-run price elasticity; panel cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q0 Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03-04
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2013/Volume33/EB-13-V33-I1-P50.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: A Long run analysis of residential water consumption (2013)
Working Paper: A long-run analysis of residential water consumption (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-12-00826

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().