The impact of privatization and regulation on the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales: a translog cost function model

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Does privatization of solid waste and water services reduce costs? A review of empirical studies (2008, background): “growth with privatization Saal and Parker (2000) England and Wales 1985–1999 10 Privatization does not induce costs reduction.”
Quo vadis efficiency analysis of water distribution? A comparative literature review (2009, background): “This suggests that water collection and connections are less costly than capitalintensive pipe-laying.”
The Impact of Regulation on Cost Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Wisconsin Water Utilities (2005, background): “water service, serving more than 2 million customers in 2000, Saal and Parker (2000) , or even to the average U.S.”
The Uk's Privatisation Experiment: The Passage of Time Permits a Sober Assessment (2004, unknown): “Saal and Parker (2000, 2001) Water and sewerage industry in England and Wales.”
A Meta-Regression Analysis of Benchmarking Studies on Water Utilities Market Structure (2012, result): “For example, Ashton (1999), among others, found economies of scale in the UK, but Saal and Parker (2000) and other authors obtained opposite results.”
Is private production of public services cheaper than public production? A meta-regression analysis of solid waste and water services (2010, methodology): “For water, we excluded the works on the U.K. by Ashton (2000a, 2000b) and Saal and Parker (2000, 2001) because they examine efficiency using productivity data at the national level.”