While the link between the ownership and productive efficiency of firms has been discussed extensively, no consensus … flexible production model to test for efficiency differences associated with ownership types while allowing the production to … public and private utilities' efficiency …

in the base year. We build a model that controls for both firm-specific heterogeneity and ownership structure and test it …

in the base year. We build a model that controls for both firm-specific heterogeneity and ownership structure and test it …

in the base year. We build a model that controls for both firm-specific heterogeneity and ownership structure and test it …

While the link between the ownership and productive efficiency of firms has been discussed extensively, no consensus … flexible production model to test for efficiency differences associated with ownership types while allowing the production to … public and private utilities' efficiency …

utilities, and find direct support using data from Electricity Distribution Businesses in New Zealand. To reflect ownership … suggest that performance comparisons of customer- and investor-owned utilities should account for ownership endogeneity. This …We model the endogenous ownership of a monopoly utility by either investors or the firm's customers. Ownership arises …

Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and … electricity distribution utilities for the 2001-2004 period. We utilize data on almost 100 geographic and weather variables to … environmental variables have a significant effect on the performance of utilities. These effects vanish in the true fixed effects …

models (legal unbundling, ownership unbundling, IDSO) are not adequate here. Instead, we discuss two novel approaches: The …