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 …

bayesian inference is still capable of contemplating the temporal dynamics of efficiency. The consideration of this point is … fundamental, because the studies done to evaluate the efficiency of the electric sector have neglected the fact that part of the … increase in efficiency of a utility comes from the gain of scale due to the expansion of the market, a process that happens …