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 …, and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). For the models that use operating costs as input, we find a positive but not …

This paper explores the empirical effects of competition on technical efficiency in the context of electricity industry … were for the most part unaffected by restructuring, experienced the smallest efficiency gains over the past decade …

using panel data, and two methodologies: data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The results …This paper conducts a comparative technical efficiency analysis of electricity generators in 16 small island economies … the efficiency of small and interconnected electricity systems. …

-to-pipe competition, most European countries moved towards incentive regulation complemented by market integration. We study the impact of …-run, market integration and competition are alternatives to the current European model. …

. 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 …

of the choice of benchmarking methods using DAE, COLS and SFA models. We discuss what problems of international …

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 …

generation, transmission, distribution and supply activities, and have introduced competition in generation and supply. An … increasing number of countries are also adopting incentive regulation to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly …