Governance structures and collection performance of Brazilian water and sanitation utilities

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Felipe Anderson Smith de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRN
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/41189
• topic: Collection performance; Governance structures; Water and sanitation utilities

This study has aimed to analyze the association of the government structure and the collection performance of water and sanitation firms. To achieve the scope of this objective, information of an economic-financial nature was collected from the financial reports and information of an operational nature of the Sistema Nacional de Informações sobre Saneamento (SNIS) of 63 Brazilian water and sanitation firms in the longitudinal panel from 2013 to 2017. The structure of government studied has been limited to the aspects of property (ownership) and corporatization, that is, the aspect of legal personality. For the analyzes, econometric estimation resources were used, specifically, the equations of generalized estimates (GEE). In the aspect of ownership, the findings suggest that private property is associated with lower collection performance, while, in the aspect of corporatization, the results do not suggest significant associations between the quotes of the firms in the stock market and the revenues evasion index. In relation to the control variables, the firms located in the southern region and density of the network will be associated with better collection performance, while, being located in the North region and accessibility suggest worse collection performance.