issues in electricity sector benchmarking, such as the role of scale effects and optimal utility size, as well as new … customer density is found to affect the efficiency score significantly in the lower third of all observations. The grid … composition does not produce systematic effects. Surprisingly, East German utilities feature a higher average efficiency than …

The impact of ICT on the efficiency of different national telecommunication industries of the US, Germany, France, the …-country panel maximum-likelihood-estimation. By determining the technology efficiency effect frontiers for each single country one … wave of major innovations as a first mover in comparison to the others and diminished by this their relative efficiency …

Since the inception of transition Ukraine experienced an economic decline. Using indicators for the progress of … economic reforms in transition countries, it becomes evident that Ukraine belongs to a very small group of eastern European … this implementation together with the evaluation of Ukraine's macroeconomic performance give rise to the question as to …

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

firms. To do so, we employ up-to-date frontier efficiency analysis. The analysis suggests that an increase in size occurs … increases in technical efficiency. Our analysis identifies winners and losers among small, medium and large companies. The … findings are consistent with the hypothesis that regulation forces firms to concentrate on efficiency. …