to modify these decisions in ways that might enhance system reliability or improve the efficiency of the markets in which …

Restructuring is attempting to bring the economic efficiency of competitive markets to the electric power industry. To …

emissions while improving grid efficiency and reliability. Additional challenges include supply/demand imbalances, transmission …

The objective of this report is to perform a controlled laboratory study on the efficiency and emissions of swimming …

technical inefficiency of the manufacturing sector. Our findings reveal that the average technical efficiency of the tested … firms is 0.7149, which is below the efficiency frontier: factors that affect inefficiency are found and explained. Our …

This paper explores the empirical effects of competition on technical efficiency in the context of electricity industry … were for the most part unaffected by restructuring, experienced the smallest efficiency gains over the past decade …

reflected in efficiency analysis. In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks using a … analysis (SFA) method on multi-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and … efficiency significantly. In contrast to previous research, smaller utilities seem to indicate lower technical efficiency when …

This article analyzes the efficiency of Water Users Associations (WUA) in the Cap Bon region(Tunisia) and studies its … Envelopment Analysis” (DEA) technique. TheDEA models are constructed not only to assess the overall WUA efficiency but also to … DEA model. In a second stage critical determinants of efficiency are determined using aTobit model. In this analysis the …

. The article measures the technical efficiency of 25 district referral hospitals from three regions of Uganda over the 1999 …-2003 period. It applies a super-efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis model. The application of a super-efficiency model was … efficiency score of unity. The results of the standard data envelopment analysis models indicate the existence of different …