Rapid population growth has significantly increased the magnitude of water shortages in California. Although water …

market power and its exercise during the California electricity crisis of 2000–2001. In introducing competition, both … transitional and long-run opportunities for firms to exercise market power may arise. California had transitional rules that …

In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … investigated using non-parametric techniques. To analyse efficiency trends, a DEA window analysis is conducted on publicly …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …

as the importance of increased efficiency and transportability; privacy, security, and access concerns; quality …

significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor … change (TC) and scale efficiency change (SEC). This information is useful for policy makers to design suitable policies in … landwirtschaftlichen Produktion umzubauen. Signifikante Erhöhungen der Effizienz und der Produktivität waren die Folge. Die vorliegende …

This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative … efficiency, average firm size, capital intensity and the rate of new firm formation. Most strikingly, we find that in about 95 … percent of industries the distribution of technical efficiency is skewed to the right, not to the left as is commonly assumed. …

technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms fixed effects. One striking result is that … the distribution of technical efficiency across industries is positively skewed. This is because the efficiency … technical efficiency differences across industries. Our econometric analyses provide evidence that capital and human capital …

efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both aggregated as overall index) on Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Given that the … fokussiert auf die jeweilige technische Effizienz (TE), den technologischen Wandel und, als Aggregat, auf die totale …