article attempts to do so by proposing six DEA-based performance evaluation models based on a research sample of the Chinese …

assessment of the efficiency of the Brazilian distribution sector relative to its U.S. counterpart in 1994 and 2000. Two … techniques are applied: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), including the computation of Malmquist indices of productivity growth … statistically significant impact of Brazilian privatisation on technical efficiency. For the models that use total costs, the impact …

US regulatory reform using a Malmquist-based productivity analysis for a panel of US interstate companies. Results are …

. Regulators have employed partial incentive schemes to promote cost saving, investment efficiency, and service quality. This paper …/99. We calculate technical efficiency of the utilities using Data Envelopment Analysis technique and productivity change over … service quality and that efficiency scores of cost-only models do not show high correlation with those of quality-based models …

the efficiency and performance of network utilities. An important issue has been the extent to which such results are … utilities. The weather parameters in some models are significant in terms of economic efficiency. After excluding network length …

increasing number of countries are also adopting incentive regulation to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly …

Efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks is often limited to technical or cost efficiency measures … generally not part of the analysis. A regulatory concern is that technical efficiency can be achieved at the expense of these … measures as well as allocative efficiency. Valuation of service quality for inclusion in regulatory models is particularly …

other UK regulated industries. Three efficiency measurement techniques are applied to this data (DEA; COLS; SFA). Our …The objective of this paper is to inform the debate on how efficiency targets for Network Rail (formerly Railtrack … efficiency differences suggest that the company could make significant savings in future years by applying (its own) best …