@article{oai:stars.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000389,
 author = {矢根真二},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {桃山学院大学総合研究所紀要},
 month = {2016-12-05, 2023-08-18},
 note = {This study raises awareness of the importance of reforms that expand the supply area of water
to the Doshu system level, from the viewpoint of the large disparity of current fees in Japan. This
disparity is based mainly on two hypotheses : problems caused by the municipality responsibility
principle and those caused by politically-based price settings. The former hypothesis refers to
the problem of prioritizing the principle of obligating each municipality to supply water over the
economic rationality specific to each region, resulting in creation of small-scale utilities that run
at high cost. The latter hypothesis refers to the expanded cost disparity which caused politicallybased
price settings that prevent them from covering the initial cost to prevail among the
majority of utilities. Empirical evidence of these two perspectives clarifies the magnitude of the
cost gap even greater than the price gap, and, at the same time, demonstrates the difficulty of
solving this issue. This paper also provides a price list, estimated at the Doshu system level,
which takes both equality and finances into account},
 pages = {23--40},
 title = {水道料金格差の解消と道州制レベルの広域化　－市町村原則の罪と政治的な価格決定ー},
 volume = {42},
 year = {}
}