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The Cost Efficiency of German Banks : A Comparison of Sfa and DEA

Fiorentino, Elisabetta - 2016

We investigate the consistency of efficiency scores derived with two competing frontier …

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Semi-parametric measures of scale characteristics of German natural gas-fired electricity generation

Seifert, Stefan - 2016

with the assumptions of the underlying empirical model. This paper derives estimators of scale efficiency and scale …

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Measuring productivity when technologies are heterogeneous : a semi-parametric approach for electricity generation

Seifert, Stefan - 2015

While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity growth for a sector characterized by multiple...

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What causes cross-industry differences of technical efficiency? : an empirical investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

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Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

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What causes cross-industry differences of technical efficiency? : an empirical investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004

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 …

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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks

Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2019 - This version: January 29, 2019

significant (about 10% of total cost) for firms in the upper quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is …

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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks

Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2018

quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is consistent with the pooling of types under the threat of ratcheting. …

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Distributed generation and cost efficiency of German electricity distribution network operators

Just, Lisa; Wetzel, Heike - 2020

German distribution network operators from 2011 to 2017 to estimate both the transient and persistent cost efficiency of … incentive regulation and efficiency benchmarking in electricity distribution industries and provides valuable insights for …

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Cost Efficiency of German Mutual Fund Complexes

Schaefer, Alexander - 2014

Results from frontier analysis show that German investment management companies are far from being cost e fficient. The average investment management company may be able to reduce its costs by 48% to 75% when compared with the best-practice company in the sample. The level of e fficiency even...

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