Incentive scheme based on investment plan compliance for public water utilities in Peru

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Using the budget-based scheme approach developed by Kirby et.al. (1991) and Reichelstein (1992), this paper establishes the optimal policy function in order to control hidden actions from managers of Public Water Utilities (PWU) regarding investments that deviate from the Optimized Business Plan (OBP), with the purpose of inducing managers to reduce deviation from the execution of not programmed investments in the OBP and from programmed investments that were not executed. We find a high percentage of investment (47%) that deviates from its OBP. However between 16% and 35% of executed investment that it deviates from its programmation, can be controlled by the PWU manager with a compensation payment schemes.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UFZ Discussion Paper ; No. 02/2012

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Wasserwirtschaft ; Investitionspolitik ; Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie ; Leistungsentgelt ; Anreizvertrag ; Betriebliche Investitionspolitik ; Peru

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Larrauri, Iván M. Lucich
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
• (where): Leipzig
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55215
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET