competition. They may also impose transaction and administrative costs related to permitting and licensing. If stringent …

The purpose of this study is to analyze the cost efficiency of electricity distribution systems in order to enable … regulatory authorities to establish price- or revenue cap regulation regimes. The increasing use of efficiency analysis in the … last decades has raised serious concerns among regulators and companies regarding the reliability of efficiency estimates …

This paper provides evidence that ownership and organization matters for the efficiency of provision of public services … Vorhersagen der Theorie der Verfügungsrechte und haben somit einen wichtigen Einfluss auf wirtschaftspolitische Entscheidungen. …

-best efficiency, they lead to Pareto-improvements and production efficiency. Moreover, the production efficiency advantage persists …

applied in incentive regulation practice, where the assessment of efficiency plays a major role in regulation design and … and SFA efficiency scores, have certain practical merits and might offer an useful alternative to strict reliance on a …, but can also improve the precision of efficiency estimation. Based on our results, we give recommendations for the …

, proponents of these transactions emphasize their efficiency gains. Recent studies raise concerns about the efficiency gains … monopolize the downstream market. Essentially, when suppliers feature different degrees of efficiency and the market is fully …