An Econometric Estimation of Industrial Water Demand in France

Arnaud Reynaud

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2003, vol. 25, issue 2, 213-232

Abstract: This study investigates the structure of industrial water demand byestimating the derived demand for water on a sample of industrialestablishments located in the south-west of France. Productiontechnologies are represented by short-term variable cost functions andapproximated by a translog form. Industrial water use is modeled ashaving three components: the quantity of water bought to a waterutility, the quantity of autonomous water and the quantity of watertreated prior to use. We include in this framework water effluents,which are considered as a by-product of the production process, emittedby firms. Each of the three water components is treated as a separateinput and all are estimated as a system of simultaneous equations. Themodel is estimated on a sample of 51 industrial plants in the Girondedistrict observed from 1994 to 1996 using Seemingly Unrelated Regression(SUR) and Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS). Results ofestimations show that industrial firms are sensitive to water priceinputs. Network water elasticity is estimated at −0.29. It variesfrom −0.10 to −0.79 according to the type of industryconsidered. Autonomous water price elasticity is not significant.Elasticity for treated water is evaluated at −1.42 at themean-sample and varies from −0.90 to −2.21 according to theindustry considered. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

Keywords: cost function; industrial water demand; panel data; translog form; water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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