Abstract The aim of this paper is to provide deeper insights into the impact of regulatory reforms and privatization on the R&D spending of electricity utilities. Building on a novel panel data set including the biggest European utilities from eight EU countries over a period from 1985 to 2010,...

In this paper, we propose an approach to implement environmental standards into Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and in this way to measure their regulatory impact on eco-efficiency of firms. One standard feature of basic DEA models lies in the exogeneity of inputs, desirable and undesirable...

This paper is the first to explicitly test for the presence of a trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency and a trade-off between vertical economies and competition in a regulated industry, the electricity industry. We show for 16 European countries over the period 1998–2008 that higher...

Dieser Band gibt die Beiträge zu einer internationalen Konferenz wieder, die das Wissenschaftliche Institut für Kommunikationsdienste der Deutschen Bundespost am 14. und 15. November 1988 im Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn veranstaltet hat. Ziel der Konferenz war es, ein Forum zu schaffen, auf dem...

Since the early 1980s the world market for telecommunications equipment has been undergoing substantial change. It is claimed that the telecommunications equipment industry is evolving from the old structure in which products were mainly produced for national markets - and if possible also sold...