Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0669754

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0669754

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Assessing willingness to pay for urban water, wastewater, gas and electricity delivery service standards. The utility industry is a substantial component of the Australian economy (2.2 % of GDP), underpinning national production. Recent infrastructure failures, costing up to $200 million per week, have been blamed largely on regulatory approaches that emphasise minimum price and cost solutions to utility service provision without any assessment or consideration of the willingness to pay for service quality and the value people place on surety of supply. Research on the role of WTP for service standards in regulating price and service quality is required to prevent future infrastructure failures. This research will provide substantial economic benefits to Australia through improved regulation and better targeting of infrastructure investment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-03-2007

End Date: 30-06-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $191,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Urban And Regional Economics | Applied Economics | Environment And Resource Economics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Water services and utilities | Gas services and utilities | Electricity services and utilities |

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Electricity services and utilities | Environment And Resource Economics | Gas services and utilities | Urban And Regional Economics | Water services and utilities

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