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Arunava Bhattacharyya, Elliott Parker, Kambiz Raffiee, An Examination of the Effect of Ownership on the Relative Efficiency of Public and Private Water Utilities, Land Economics, Vol. 70, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 197-209
Bhattacharyya et al. (1994) studied this question.