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

-efficient production level for an incentive regulation of distribution system operators (DSOs). With nearly 900 DSOs operating in the … German electricity sector, of which 200 subject to incentive regulation, the issue of heterogeneity of DSOs has to be … efficiency scores derived from stochastic frontier analysis. To correct for this heterogeneity in coefficients, I propose a …

used to determine future prices when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly … significant (about 10% of total cost) for firms in the upper quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is …

subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly significant (about 7%) for firms in the upper … quartile of the efficiency distribution, a pattern which is consistent with the pooling of types under the threat of ratcheting. …

, efficiency estimates may be biased as technological heterogeneity is misunderstood as inefficiency. To overcome this …

The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990-2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier … model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered … included in the inefficiency equation provided that the spatial distance measure substantially captures the efficiency …

generation. This paper proposes an efficiency analysis approach that addresses which mission rates (and standards) would be … feasible if the existing generating units adopt best practices. A new efficiency measure is introduced and further decomposed …

productive efficiency of the companies due to the use of the inputs in just one activity and a greater level of transparency for … the regulator. This paper analyzes the cost efficiency of 28 electricity distribution companies in New Zealand for the … function are estimated in order to evaluate the impact of ownership unbundling on the level of cost efficiency. The results …

, for determining efficiency in the presence of radial and nonradial inputs or outputs. Further extension of the scheme … occurred to address nonseparable desirable and undesirable outputs. Applying the model to measure the overall efficiency of U … overall management and environmental efficiency between 1996 and 2000 …