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analyses of regulation and privatisation in ESI in Thailand are presented. Regulatory, efficiency and fiscal issues are … for privatisation: efficiency improvement and fiscal benefit.In the efficiency analysis, measures of the technical … efficiency of the electricity generation sector in Thailand are estimated by employing a comparative application of Data …
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efficiency, quality and welfare, despite having lower-value customers. These predictions agree with empirical findings for US … utilities, and find direct support using data from Electricity Distribution Businesses in New Zealand. To reflect ownership … suggest that performance comparisons of customer- and investor-owned utilities should account for ownership endogeneity. This …
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public and private utilities' efficiency …While the link between the ownership and productive efficiency of firms has been discussed extensively, no consensus … flexible production model to test for efficiency differences associated with ownership types while allowing the production to …
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The aim of this research is to provide novel evidence regarding the functioning of the Nordic model of economic development and the robustness of its institutions. At first, the paper defines a conceptual analytical framework identifying the key features of the model for the Nordic economies...
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Can African countries learn from the development experiences of other regions? Or are the continent’s development challenges unique? This paper looks at the development experience of the Nordic countries, especially Sweden, from the nineteenth century and discusses the extent to which the...
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Although access to electricity has improved in the Philippines, the country still faces an energy insecurity problem. The country is highly dependent on coal power and large-scale transmission lines to meet its growing demand for electricity; while aiming to supply electricity to the cities,...
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The purpose of the study is to examine the relation between Nordic corporate governance practices and earnings management. We find that the presence of employee representation on the board and the presence of an audit committee are both practices that reduce the occurrence of earnings...
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