The purpose of this study is to examine competition in the electric power industry from an industrial organization …'' approach used to analyze the electric power market. Industrial organization emphasizes specific market performance criteria … power market, grouped primarily into regulated producers, unregulated producers, and consumers. Chapter 4 describes the …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises … performance.The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related tofactors such as farm type, farm …

productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development … paths cannot be confirmed.It is also shown that the american civil war had rather less influence on manufacturing efficiency …

fully dynamic model class overlapping generations of Fehr (1999) enabling a decomposition of welfare effects into efficiency … the Thai base case data of the year 2000 suggest that the tax reform generate moderate long-term efficiency gains. While …

) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … ownership type on the production of quality of care and efficiency from a theoretical (Chapter 2) and empirical perspective …, untersucht: i) die Qualität, ii) die Effizienz, und iii) die Trägerschaft.i) Die Qualität ist das wichtigste Produkt des …

explanatory power. R&D activity does not exert any positive influence on technical efficiency. In the second chapter a special … explanatory power. R&D activity does not exert any positive influence on technical efficiency. In the second chapter a special …The first chapter investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In an empirical …