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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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Scale characteristics are key properties of production functions that determine optimal firm sizes, and have considerable policy implications for sectors undergoing restructuring. However, estimates of scale characteristics typically vary with the assumptions of the underlying empirical model....
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In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a non-parametric sequential Data Envelopment Analysis. We apply a metafrontier framework to evaluate plant-level efficiencies in the transformation of inputs into desirable...
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the process of internal efficiency benchmarking of a firm's sales representatives aimed at identifying strong and weak … DEA benchmarking that simply uses raw sales calls as input measures, the proposed model that uses more 'processing' of the … ; Salesperson Benchmarking ; Data Envelopment Analysis ; Efficiency Analysis …
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Die Effizienz der Arbeitsämter wird nicht erst seit dem "Vermittlungsskandal", der zur Einsetzung der Hartz-Kommission und schließlich zu einer Reihe von Reformgesetzen führte, in Frage gestellt. Schon zuvor hatten Evaluationsstudien immer wieder hervorgehoben, daß für die Effektivität...
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In this paper we present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and … benchmarking approaches to assess the relative technical efficiency of the utilities, such as deterministic Corrected Ordinary … utilities. -- International benchmarking ; electricity distribution ; parametric efficiency analysis …
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